Why has Benchmark launched daily lithium and cobalt prices?

Daniel Fletcher-Manuel, Director - Indexing & Derivatives; Matthew Bird, Senior Editor - Supply Chains & Data Visualisation - Benchmark

Benchmark has launched four new IOSCO-compliant daily price grades across the lithium and cobalt markets to better capture intra-assessment price movements. Benchmark's Director of Indexing and Derivates, Daniel Fletcher-Manuel, discusses the motivation behind the launch and explains that factors which make Benchmark's methodology robust and unique.