American Metal Market

What American Metal Market does

American Metal Market (AMM) is a B2B price reporting agency delivering commodity intelligence across global metals and mining markets. It maintains more than 2,000 proprietary price assessments spanning base metals, industrial minerals, ores and alloys, steel, and scrap and steel raw materials, alongside news, market analysis, forecasting analysis, exchange data solutions, risk management tools, and consulting services. The offering is delivered through a multi-channel digital platform comprising a web dashboard, mobile applications (iOS and Android), an Excel add-in, and a programmatic API that enables integration into customer trading and risk systems.

Since 2024, AMM has operated as an integrated brand within Fastmarkets Global Limited, a UK-incorporated privately held company that consolidates multiple commodity intelligence brands — including Metal Bulletin, Scrap Price Bulletin, Industrial Minerals, RISI, FOEX, The Jacobsen, Agricensus, Palm Oil Analytics, Random Lengths, and Hardwood Market Report — under a unified platform covering metals and mining, battery raw materials, agriculture, forest products, and carbon markets. The company employs between 101 and 250 staff and is led by Raju P. Daswani as President.

Revenue is generated primarily through annual enterprise subscriptions (subscription-recurring) to price data, news, and forecasting, supplemented by professional services (consulting, industry events, webinars). The go-to-market is sales-led, targeting producers, traders, financial institutions, manufacturers, and scrap and recycling firms through direct enterprise engagement, demo requests, channel partners, and a content/event-led demand generation engine that includes the Fast Forward podcast and topical webinars. Pricing is custom and not publicly disclosed.

Name

American Metal Market

Legal name

Fastmarkets Global Limited

Website

https://amm.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1865

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

American Metal Market, part of Fastmarkets Global Limited, is a B2B price reporting agency delivering 2,000+ metal price assessments, news, and market analysis. It serves producers, traders, financial institutions, and manufacturers through web, API, and mobile platforms.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Others

Revenue model

1. Subscription Access to Price Data and News: B2B subscription model providing access to metals and mining price assessments, news, market analysis, and forecasting data. Customers access over 2000 price points across primary and secondary metals markets.
2. Consulting Services: Professional consulting services for market analysis and specialized commodity intelligence
3. Risk Management Solutions: Risk management tools and services for commodity market participants
4. Events and Webinars: Industry events including agriculture events, coal events, critical and battery minerals events, forest products events, metals events, and webinars for market intelligence sharing

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

American Metal Market provides subscription-based access to metals price assessments, commodity market news, market analysis, forecasting, exchange data, and risk management tools for the global metals and mining industry, delivered through the unified Fastmarkets Platform via web dashboard, mobile apps, Excel add-in, and API. Coverage spans over 2,000 price points across base metals, industrial minerals, ores and alloys, steel, scrap, and steel raw materials.

Product overview

American Metal Market, now part of Fastmarkets, operates as a comprehensive commodity intelligence platform offering a portfolio of interconnected products and services. The core offering consists of metals and mining price data (providing over 2000 prices since 1865), news and market analysis (130 years of industry coverage), and forecasting analysis. These are complemented by exchange data solutions, risk management tools, and consulting services. The Fastmarkets platform serves as the unified access point for all products, available via web dashboard, mobile app, API, and Excel add-in. The portfolio includes acquired brands such as Metal Bulletin, Scrap Price Bulletin, Industrial Minerals, RISI, FOEX, The Jacobsen, Agricensus, Palm Oil Analytics, Random Lengths, and Hardwood Market Report. The platform covers base metals, industrial minerals, ores and alloys, steel, scrap and steel raw materials across global markets including China, Europe, and the Americas.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Metals and Mining Prices Provides price discovery and benchmarks for the metals and mining markets, covering over 2,000 prices across base metals, industrial minerals, ores and alloys, steel, scrap, and steel raw materials. Sold as a subscription data product to enterprise and professional buyers in the metals value chain.
• Metals and Mining News and Market Analysis Subscription news and market analysis service covering metals price movements and market intelligence, sold to metals and mining professionals, trading houses, and industrial buyers.
• Metals and Mining Forecasts Forecasting analysis providing transparency into market movements with metals price forecasts and market outlooks to support customer planning.
• Exchange Data Solutions Benchmark and exchange data product for commodities trading and risk management purposes, serving exchanges and trading firms.
• Risk Management Risk management tools and services to help commodity market participants manage price volatility and trading risks.
• Consulting Expert consulting services for market analysis, pricing methodology, and strategic commodity intelligence.
• Fastmarkets Platform Unified digital platform providing access to Fastmarkets products including price data, news, analysis, and forecasting through dashboard, mobile app, API, and Excel add-in.

Quantifiable outcome

• 2000+ price assessments available across metals markets
• +1 more outcomes

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

Feature4 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• FastmarketsflagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerAmerican Metal Market is now fully integrated into Fastmarkets, a leading cross-commodity price reporting agency (PRA) serving agriculture, forest products, and metals and mining markets. The integration provides customers with unified access to AMM's metals intelligence alongside Fastmarkets' broader commodity offerings including Metal Bulletin, Scrap Price Bulletin, Industrial Minerals, RISI, FOEX, The Jacobsen, Agricensus, Palm Oil Analytics, Random Lengths, and Hardwood Market Report.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Argus Media: Independent commodity price reporting agency covering metals, energy, and agricultural markets with subscription price assessments, news, and consulting — directly comparable business model to AMM/Fastmarkets in metals and adjacent commodities.
• CRU Group: Independent commodity research and price assessment firm with deep focus on metals, mining, fertilizers, and battery materials. Closely comparable to AMM in metals market intelligence, methodology, and subscription model.
• ICIS (Independent Commodity Intelligence Services): Commodity intelligence provider covering petrochemicals, energy, and selected metals. Comparable B2B subscription price reporting and news model, though heavier in chemicals than AMM.

Broad incumbents

• S&P Global Commodity Insights (Platts): Division of S&P Global operating Platts, the legacy benchmark publisher for oil and metals. Directly competes with AMM in metals price assessments while offering a much broader commodity and financial data portfolio.
• Wood Mackenzie: Global energy and natural resources research and consultancy, owned by Veritas Capital. Overlaps with AMM in metals and mining market intelligence while serving a broader research and advisory mandate.
• Bloomberg L.P. Global financial data and terminal provider that bundles commodity pricing (including metals) into a broad enterprise data offering. Competes with AMM where customers consolidate data spend on terminals.
• LSEG (Refinitiv): London Stock Exchange Group operates Refinitiv, providing financial and commodity market data and analytics. Competes with AMM through bundled metals pricing on Eikon/Workspace terminals and broader data products.

Others

• RISI (Resource Information Systems): Forest products price reporting agency that is itself now part of Fastmarkets — comparable to AMM as a sibling PRA brand within the same platform rather than an independent competitor.

Emerging players

• Mining Journal / Aspermont: Mining-focused media and events business serving the metals and mining sector. Comparable in audience and content marketing, though more limited in proprietary price assessment depth relative to AMM.
• Trove Intelligence (formerly Benchmark Mineral Intelligence): Specialist price reporting agency focused on battery raw materials (lithium, cobalt, nickel, graphite). Direct emerging competitor to AMM/Fastmarkets in the high-growth critical minerals intelligence segment.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/amm1882

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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