Platts Metals Alert is the metal industry's leading real-time data feed service. It provides continuous breaking Metals news from the editors of Platts Metals Week, a long-term global team of metals specialists dedicated exclusively to metals reporting, 24-hours-a-day.

Delivered directly to your PC or terminal via satellite or Internet access, Platts Metals Alert is designed to keep subscribers current on what's happening right now in the worldwide metals industry. Platts Metals Alert is a very easy to use Windows-based software, which can be incorporated into your other applications.

With correspondents in thirty countries and news bureaus—including New York, Washington, Kentucky, London, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, Moscow and Hong Kong, Platts has created a global network of experts in constant contact with the metals industry.

Platts Metals Alert delivers:

Benchmark market assessments—Key price levels for a range of metals, including aluminum, nickel, copper, zinc, ferroalloys, gold, silver, platinum, palladium, rhodium, titanium, and magnesium, known throughout the world for accuracy and consistency.
Commentary enabling you to learn the "Why's" behind physical and futures market movements, with insights not found anywhere else.
The latest record on trade developments from the US Commerce Department and European Commission, as well as reports on government activities such as legislation, defense stockpile sales, and government tenders.
Immediate exchange closing prices and fundamental updates from the LME, NYMEX and COMEX, as well as the Tokyo, Shanghai, and Kuala Lumpur exchanges.
Exclusive reports on the activities and outlooks of downstream operations such as mills, extruders, diecasters, automotive and construction industry plants, as well as stories about distributors and other types of companies not covered by other wires.
The only coverage of the most widely used US Aluminum price (the Platts Midwest Transaction price) the day it is set, plus in-depth commentary each week on what the survey participants were saying and why the premium was assessed where it was.
Insightful coverage of the nonferrous scrap metals markets in each of the major geographic areas, analyzing how scrap trends are affecting primary and downstream markets. Includes a broad range of US aluminum scrap prices, benchmark US secondary aluminum alloy prices and commentary twice a week, the same days they are assessed.
Breaking general economic, automotive and other transportation news that could affect the metals industries.
Selected stories on electricity, natural gas and oil from the experts within Platts.