S&P Global Commodity Insights delivers the clarity you need to act with confidence. From price assessments to analytics, news, and forecasting tools, we provide you with a comprehensive view of the ferrous metals market.
Ferrous Metals Market Insights
Crucial ferrous metals market intelligence for market participants across ferrous metals supply chains. Access market reports, trends insights, and ongoing expert analysis on iron ore, steel, scrap, and ferroalloys, helping you track market dynamics, pricing and regulations with confidence.
Metals Risk Market Data
Daily forward curves, spot-to-forward coverage, and Platts-powered benchmarks to help metals market participants plan, price, and manage risk with precision. Whether you're navigating volatility or optimizing strategy, our metals risk market data helps you move faster with market-reflective insights.
In today’s metals market, data is often fragmented and hard to interpret. Our ferrous metals asset databooks (Coal and Iron Ore) combine costs, production, and carbon intensity into a single reliable source that empowers confident, data-driven decisions. It can be used by pricing, strategy, risk, and ESG teams to reveal supply dynamics, forecast trends, manage cost curves, and assess sustainability. Built on proprietary S&P Global databases with standardized and transparent methodologies, our ferrous metal asset databooks deliver insights you can trust.
Discover the clarity beneath the surface.
Comprehensive data across cost, production and carbon intensity.
No more juggling scattered spreadsheets.
Share across finance, strategy, trading & ESG teams.
Enable cross-functional collaboration.
Comprehensive data + intuitive data templates = Less time spent on data wrangling.
Free up time for strategic initiatives.
Country-level reserves & resource data reveal global supply potential.
See the Bigger Picture.
Comprehensive data across cost, production and carbon intensity.
Share across finance, strategy, trading & ESG teams.
Comprehensive data + intuitive data templates = Less time spent on data wrangling.
Country-level reserves & resource data reveal global supply potential.
Our ferrous price assessments underpin billions in transactions across steel, iron ore, and other critical metals in both physical and futures markets.
In-depth content and advanced analytics, specifically tailored for the ferrous sector, combined with fundamental and alternative data, empower your strategy with actionable insights and connections to key industry players.
All-in-one solutions integrates specialized data and global benchmarks, streamlining decision-making and enabling clients to confidently navigate the complexities of pricing, supply chains, and regulatory challenges.
Transparent methodologies for ferrous metals assessments provide clients with clear insights into pricing benchmarks, fostering trust and enabling informed decision-making in a rapidly evolving market.
Years of daily iron ore and metallurgical coal price assessment history
Steel and scrap price assessments
Derivative contracts settle against Platts ferrous benchmarks
To launch carbon-accounted steel price premiums

Mark Ferguson
Research Director, Metals & Mining Research

Shivani Singh
Associate Director, Price Reporting - Metals

Gavin Montgomery
Principal Analyst, Metal and Mining
Every day, we help project leaders, traders, analysts and manufacturers worldwide make faster, smarter decisions. By unlocking the true value of ferrous metals, we help you achieve exceptional results.
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