How to set up newsletters

Customized Newsletters are published in PDF and HTML email formats on a daily and weekly basis based on the Dashboard Market page newsletter options you select.

Customized Newsletters have been designed for customers who wish to receive a digest via email / pdf of prices and/or news depending on their subscription or have previously received the Metal Bulletin or AMM Daily pdf’s.

The newsletters are accessible to you based on your access.

• Newsletters may contain prices and news which will require access to both
• Newsletters based on End-use market pages can include price data and news across several core markets. To subscribe to these newsletters, you will need access to all prices and at least one news service.
• Newsletters that contain news will require access to at least one news service
• If your level of access provides news only you will only be able to subscribe and view newsletters containing news
• If your level of access provides only prices you will only be able to subscribe and view newsletters containing prices

Learn how to set up newsletters

You can create a curated newsletter containing prices and news from the Dashboard Market page, based on the options you select.

You may wish to receive prices and news in a newsletter format, primarily in PDF format, in line with our legacy services, including the Fastmarkets AMM Daily PDF and the Fastmarkets MB Daily PDF.

The Newsletters functionality within the Dashboard allows you to:

• Receive prices and/or news content in an easy to digest format with very little effort to customise or search and configure
• Easily flip through news articles without the need to use separate pages on a screen
• Ability to have a shared ledger with counterparts on a contract, both seeing the same presentation of prices for a given date on a Fastmarkets branded document
• View an archive of past newsletters from October 2020 onwards

However, to get the most value from the Fastmarkets Dashboard service it is always recommended to set up your own Workspaces and alerts to zone in on the most relevant content for you.

Newsletter content

The newsletters can be delivered to your email inbox on a daily or weekly basis and contain news, prices or both via pdf or just as an email. The newsletters are accessible to you based on your access:

• Newsletters may contain prices and news which will require access to both.
• Newsletters based on End-use market pages can include price data and news across several core markets. To subscribe to these newsletters, you will need access to all prices and at least one news service.
• Newsletters that contain news will require access to at least one news service.
• If your level of access provides news only you will only be able to subscribe and view newsletters containing news.
• If your level of access provides only prices you will only be able to subscribe and view newsletters containing prices.

Access newsletters in the Dashboard

Click on NEWSLETTERS on the left-hand navigation menu of the worksheet.

The Newsletter section has two tabs, Active Newsletters and All Newsletters. When you pick which newsletters you want to see from the All Newsletters tab, they appear in your Active Newsletters tab.

Clicking on a group such as ‘Base Metals’ displays all relevant newsletters within that group. You can choose the frequency of the digests you want to receive by ticking the Daily or Weekly emails. Alternatively, you can click the Latest daily or Latest Weekly links to download the newest published version of each.

Newsletters can also be accessed from the Market Pages. From any of the Market Pages, click the Newsletters menu in the top right corner. The dropdown allows you to choose between Daily or Weekly newsletters of the markets page you are viewing, or to download the latest publication.

Receive newsletter email alerts

The newsletters email alert contains the headline and a summary of the articles plus pricing tables with actual prices and monthly averages for that commodity or market. The weekly newsletters contain all the news stories from that week, based on the Market Page which generates the newsletter. When you click on a headline it will open the price details in the dashboard.

Within the email is the link ‘Open PDF Newsletter.’ This allows you to download the PDF version. However, you need to be logged into the Fastmarkets Dashboard to be able to download it.

The newsletters include Top News Stories followed by all other news articles in full within the Market Page and then the pricing tables. The content will follow the order of the News and Multi Price Table widgets contained in the Market Page.

Browse newsletter past issues

Past newsletters are also available, going back to when newsletters were launched on 6 October 2020. Click the Newsletters menu at the top right of a Market Page and from the dropdown, choose Browse past issues.

You can also access past newsletters by clicking on the NEWSLETTERS on the left side menu of the dashboard. This opens the newsletters section and displays newsletters that are already subscribed to. The final column shows a link to Past issues of the newsletters.

The Past Issues window opens and allows you to choose a past issue of the newsletter either by scrolling through the dates, or click on Jump to Date to access a specific date.

The past newsletters are in pdf format and contain the physical prices and the monthly averages. The Month column next to it shows the month which the average rice relates to.

Please note, you can only access past newsletters that are already included in your subscription.

How to access newsletters?

There are two ways to access newsletters settings in the Dashboard

Newsletter centre

• Click on the Newsletters button in the left sidebar will open the Newsletters area within the dashboard.
• This table has two tabs displayed at the top. Clicking on the ALL NEWSLETTERS tab shows all available newsletters.
• Clicking on a group (e.g. Core market pages) will display all relevant newsletters within that group.

• Each row (e.g. Base metals prices & news) represents a customized newsletter.
• Click on ‘Latest daily” to download the latest daily newsletter or ‘Latest weekly’ to download the latest weekly newsletter for that price category

Market pages

Newsletters can also be accessed from the market page directly once you have opened the page from the All Markets menu on the left sidebar.

• Clicking on the Newsletter button at the top right hand corner
• Click on the Latest daily or Latest weekly options in the drop down menu to download the latest newsletter for this market page.

How to set up newsletters to be delivered via email

If you want to receive newsletters via email, you can set this up through the dashboard.

• Click on the Newsletters button in the left sidebar will open the Newsletters area within the dashboard.
• This table has two tabs displayed at the top. Clicking on the ALL NEWSLETTERS tab shows all available newsletters.
• Clicking on a group (e.g. Core market pages) will display all relevant newsletters within that group.
• Each row (e.g. Base metals prices & news) represents a customized newsletter.
• Tick the ‘Daily emails’ or ‘Weekly emails’ boxes next to the relevant newsletter that you want to receive.

Alternatively you can set up newsletters in a market page:

• Navigate to the market page you want to receive newsletters about
• Select the Newsletter button
• Tick the Daily emails or Weekly emails boxes in the dropdown. 

Review and change your newsletter options 

If you want to review what newsletters you have selected, you can do this in the Newsletter Centre.

• Click Newsletters in the left sidebar to open the Newsletters Centre
• Select the ACTIVE NEWSLETTERS tab to view all of the newsletters you are receiving
• If you no longer want to receive a newsletter, you can un-tick the box next to it.

Access the newsletter archive

You can access past issues of any Daily or Weekly newsletter you have missed directly in the Dashboard

• Click Newsletters in the left sidebar to open the Newsletters Centre
• Select the ACTIVE NEWSLETTERS tab to view all of the newsletters you are receiving
• Click Past Issues to the right of each newsletter and select either by scrolling back and selecting the Daily or Weekly for your chosen date or click on the Jump to date link at the top to open the calendar and select a month/year.
• To browse past issues for all newsletters click ALL NEWSLETTERS and repeat step 3 above.
• Alternatively past issues can be accessed from individual Market Pages from the Newsletter menu in the top right corner, selecting Browse past issues.

Please note newsletters are available from 6th October 2020 when this feature was added to the Dashboard.

What does the newsletter email notification contain?

The newsletter email notification will contain the headline and a summary of the articles plus the pricing tables containing the latest actual assessments and monthly averages in that newsletter. When you click on a headline, it will open the full article in the dashboard. When you click on a symbol within a price table, it will open the price details in the dashboard.

Within the email you will find an ‘Open PDF newsletter’ button which allows you to download the PDF version of the newsletter. Please note you have to be a logged-in Fastmarkets dashboard user to be able to download PDF newsletters.

How are Daily and Weekly PDF newsletters constructed?

The newsletter follows the structure and the content of the market page. If you would like to visit the market page which the newsletter is based on, you can access it through the link at the top of the newsletter.

The first section of the newsletter is called ‘Top stories’. This section highlights the most important daily news articles selected by the Fastmarkets Editorial team.

Below the Top stories section, you will be able to see news articles and price tables. These are direct representations of the News list and Multi price table widgets in the market page. In the example below, the news section called ‘Steel news’ corresponds to the ‘Steel news’ widget in the market page.

Similarly, the ‘Key steel coil prices’ section of the newsletter corresponds to the ‘Key steel coil prices’ widget in the market page. Please note that price tables in the newsletter have fixed fields and these fields may differ to what is displayed in the market page. These fields inlcude the latest actual assessments and monthly average prices.

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