Multiple sources, one coordinated price discovery process
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Reporting Schedule |
| Source |
Description |
Spot prices |
Contract prices - effective list |
| PPI Markets & Prices |
Weekly news, market reports and prices. Produced by RISI's editorial team. |
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| North America (PPI Pulp & Paper Week) |
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Every other week (reported online only) |
2nd week of each month |
| Europe |
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Every other week |
Every other week |
| Asia |
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Every other week |
Every other week |
| Latin America |
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3rd week of each month |
| World Pulp Monthly |
Monthly analysis and near-term market forecast. Produced by RISI's pulp economists. |
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2nd-to-last business day of each month |
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While these sources report prices in slightly different ways and on different schedules, the editors and economists work together in a single price discovery process. That means, for instance, that the prices reported in World Pulp Monthly are based on not just the market contacts of our economists, but also of our editors.
What our reported prices represent
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Contract price - effective list |
Spot prices |
| Nature of transaction |
Regular, repeat business sometimes governed by a contract, sometimes without a contract but characterized by an ongoing monthly relationship |
One-time purchases |
| Time scope |
Weighted average for the indicated month |
Weighted average for the preceding two weeks |
| What the price represents |
Weighted average list price on which buyers and sellers agree, and which serves as the basis off of which contractual discounts are taken. |
The average net price paid |
| How determined |
Consensus of prices reported by mix of buyers and sellers |
| Delivery |
North America - Delivered to paper mill
Europe, Asia, Latin America - Delivered (CIF) to main port |
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More detail on pulp price specifications and methodology, including:
- Full price specifications
- Price methodology, including a list of challenges to price discovery and how we overcome them