New features and functionality

This page highlights some key new features in the Dashboard.

June 2025

• News API - extended search Functionality
• Fastmarkets Dashboard - available on tablet devices
• Date picker on price widgets improvement
• New short-term forecast prices & analysis launched for scrap and steel
• Harmonisation of short-term forecast content for coal & iron

For further information please refer to our Release Notes here

May 2025

• New – Gigafactory Capacity Database enhanced with pCAM/CAM production facilities – access via pre-built market page
• Palm Oil and Used Cooking Oil Interactive Market Pages
• New Soybean Futures Forecasts
• Additional conversion currencies now available
• New reference endpoint in News API
• Improved GetPriceHistory Excel Add-In functions

For further information please refer to our Release Notes here

March/April 2025

This release of the Fastmarkets Dashboard includes new functionality and features including:

• New – Link to Price Publication Schedule directly through the Fastmarkets Dashboard
• New – Expanded Price Alerts Functionality – ability to set alerts on up to 150 prices
• New – Create a spread on a Price Chart widget – for Fastmarkets pricing
• New – CME Southern Yellow Pine (Fastmarkets) futures – access quotes, trades and settlements on a 10 min delayed basis
• New – Black Mass Short Term Forecast – access pre built market page

For further information please refer to our Release Notes here

February 2025

This release of the Fastmarkets Dashboard includes new functionality and features including:

• New – COMEX Spodumene and Chicago No1 Busheling Futures – access quotes and trades pricing information on a 10 min delayed basis
• New – Prebuilt Market Pages and Newletters launched for Global Pulp, Global Nonwovens and Tissue

For further information please refer to our Release Notes here

November 2024

This release of the Fastmarkets Dashboard includes new functionality and features including:

• New – SAF Balance Sheets
• New – Fastmarkets/USDA Barley Balance Sheet Comparison
• New – Fastmarkets/USDA Soybean Balance Sheet Comparison

For further information please refer to our Release Notes here

October 2024

This release of the Fastmarkets Dashboard includes new functionality and features including:

• New – Get Started – new onboarding experience
• New – Feed Grains Fundamentals Forecasts – new corn future forecasts
• New – Fastmarkets/USDA Corn Balance Sheet – key corn market data
• New – Corn Fundamental Charts – key market data for corn industry
• New – Global Corrugated Converter Database – new feature on global corrugated facilities, providing detailed information on products, capacities, equipment and more

For further information please refer to our Release Notes here

September 2024

This release of the Fastmarkets Dashboard includes new functionality and features including:

• New – Energy Storage Systems Outlook available in the Dashboard Newsletters & Reports
• New – Battery Raw Materials Fundamentals – Batter Cost Index charts available as a prebuild Market Page
• New – Battery Raw Materials Fundamentals – Gigafactory Capacity Database available as a prebuild Market Page
• New – Month-to-date averages (MTD AVGs) for Fastmarket prices now available in the Dashboard
• Improvement – Exporting from Dashboard widgets by sorted order of ‘assessment date’ now available

For further information please refer to our Release Notes here

August 2024

This release of the Fastmarkets Dashboard includes new functionality and features including:

• New – Export forecast prices from Price Chart widget to Excel add-in
• New – Introducing “forward curves” to the Price Chart and Multi Price Table

Improvements to the Dashboard screen

• Change – login screen improvements
• New functionality – Easily add new widget from any Marketpages to your Workspace
• Change – More prominent Scroll bars in the Dashboard
• New functionality – Maximise widget to whole screen

For further information please refer to our Release Notes here

July 2024

This release of the Fastmarkets Dashboard includes new functionality and features including:

• New – CME Comex Lithium Carbonate CIF CJK (Fastmarkets) and Cobalt Hydroxide CIF China (Fastmarkets) futures – access quotes and trades pricing information on a 10 min delayed basis 

For further information please refer to our Release Notes here