Steel billet and rebar prices in the United Arab Emirates remained stable while demand was weak, sources said on Tuesday November 10.Domestic rebarThe country's steel producers were offering rebar at 1,936 dirhams ($527) per tonne ex-works for orders to be produced in November, unchanged since September 15.Deal prices were reported to Fastmarkets at around...Read More
A summary of the financial results for Turkey's largest integrated long steel producer, Kardemir, for the first three quarters of 2020, covering the period January 1-September 30.In briefThe company managed to increase its earnings, as well as its steel output, despite the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on the steel market.Kardemir also increased its sales...Read More
In the export market for flat steel from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) offers increased again during the week to Monday November 9 on a global shortage, sources said.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for steel hot-rolled coil, export, fob Black Sea, CIS was $515-525 per tonne on November 9, up from $475-495 per tonne a week earlier."Stocks are low in Turkey no...Read More
The Turkish steel mills remained out of the deep-sea scrap markets on the second working day of the current week, but were expected to resume their bookings with support from fresh rebar export sales, sources said on Tuesday November 10.Turkish steelmakers booked 11 deep-sea cargoes last week but stepped away from the market at the beginning of this week, when the exchange-rate value of the countr...Read More
Seaborne premium hard coking coal prices in the fob market edged up on Tuesday November 10 on active trading, while cfr hard coking coal prices jumped because of Chinese restrictions on Australian coal.Fastmarkets indicesPremium hard coking coal, fob DBCT: $108.09 per tonne, up $1.31 per tonne Premium hard coking coal, cfr Jingtang: $146.70 per tonne, up $2.36 per tonneHard coking coal,...Read More
Seaborne iron ore prices were up on Tuesday November 10 amid strong demand for rebar in China, but some market participants told Fastmarkets that the long-term outlook is not looking so positive.Fastmarkets iron ore indices 62% Fe fines, cfr Qingdao: $122.27 per tonne, up $0.52 per tonne62% Fe low-alumina fines, cfr Qingdao: $122.74 per tonne, up $0.49 per tonne58% Fe fines high-grade pr...Read More
China's hot-rolled coil sellers maintained their offers on Tuesday November 10 despite a weakening of trading activity.DomesticEastern China (Shanghai): 4,080-4,090 yuan ($617-618) per tonne, narrowing downward by 10 yuan per tonneA Shanghai-based trader said buyers stopped restocking amid falling futures, although spot prices largely held up.A second Shanghai-based trader said most sellers kept t...Read More
China's domestic rebar market maintained its upward momentum on Tuesday November 10 on good demand and falling inventories. DomesticEastern China (Shanghai): 4,060-4,090 yuan ($614-619) per tonne, up by 30 yuan per tonneDemand from the construction sector remained strong during the day, which pushed up rebar prices further. The daily transactions averaged 262,000 tonnes in the first 10 days of Nov...Read More
Base metals prices on both the London Metal Exchange and Shanghai Futures Exchange were mainly lower this morning, Tuesday November 10, while prices consolidated after Monday's double dose of positive news - that of Joe Biden winning the US presidential election and Pfizer announcing progress toward a potential Covid-19 vaccine. Asian Pacific equities mainly higher on the back of the vaccine news....Read More
First Cobalt Corp and Glencore have agreed to discuss a long-term feed purchase contract instead of the tolling arrangement originally contemplated. The Canada-headquartered company, which is working to recommission and expand a currently idled cobalt refinery in Canada, said it had decided to be a market purchaser of feedstock, rather than a toll refiner.The change in approach towards feed purcha...Read More
The European titanium markets look set to remain buoyant through 2021 and well into 2022, with a shortage of titanium scrap underpinning both feedstock and alloy prices, according to industry sources.The titanium scrap market may be in deficit until at least early 2022, sources said, and aerospace - a key supply sector - is expected to struggle to recover output after the Covid-19 p...Read More
The Cobalt alloy grade, in-whs Rotterdam, $/lbtrade log including business, bids and offers reported to Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets publishes trades logs for its key price assessments and indices to bring more transparency into the markets it covers and the pricing process it...Read More
The Cobalt standard grade, in-whs Rotterdam, $/lb trade log including business, bids and offers reported to Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets publishes trades logs for its key price assessments and indices to bring more transparency into the markets it covers and the pricing process it applies. Fastmarkets assessed Cobalt standard grade,...Read More
There are tremendous opportunities for manganese and vanadium in the global trend of electrifications, and the battery sector will outpace the steel industry in terms of boosting demand growth for those materials, delegates heard at Fastmarkets' International Ferro-alloys virtual conference on Tuesday November 10. Competitive cost and comparatively diverse supply are likely to dictate the shift in...Read More
Seaborne prices for high-grade manganese ore were unlikely to spend much time at levels below $4 per dry metric tonne unit (dmtu) based on today's cost curve, an analyst said on Tuesday November 10.Speaking during Fastmarkets' International Ferro-alloys Conference, when asked about the floor price for manganese ore, Kevin Fowkes of AlloyConsult said that high stocks could continue to put pressure...Read More
The implementation of a proposed export tax on South African chrome ore could prompt China to impose a tax on imports of the country's ferro-chrome into the East Asian nation, according to David Kovarsky, senior vice president at chrome ore producer Sibanye Stillwater.Speaking at Fastmarkets' International Ferro-alloys Conference, which is being held online, Kovarsky was critical of the proposed S...Read More
Ferro-alloy markets should pick-up in early 2021 following the recovery in the global downstream steel industry, delegates heard at the International Ferroalloys Conference 2020 on November 9.Amy Bennett, principal consultant at Fastmarkets, expects global ferro-alloys markets to find support early next year amid the recovery in global steel markets, though there has been some disparity in regiona...Read More
Markets were generally buoyant on the back of relief that a potential Covid-19 vaccine has been found, but the metals also seem hesitant this morning, Tuesday October 11, about what this will mean to the markets given how much they have run up already since the March lows.* Asian Pacific equities were mixed, with China’s CSI 300 down for the second day as big tech, a big winner during lockdow...Read More
Gold stocks are under technical pressure. Gold iShares (XGD) moved below $21.02 extending an intermediate downtrend. Franco-Nevada, a TSX 60 stock moved below Cdn$175.85 extending an intermediate downtrend. Wheaton Precious Metals (WPM), a TSX 60 stock moved below US$43.89 extending an intermediate downtrend.Nutrien (NTR), a TSX 60 stock moved above $55.42 extending an intermediate uptrend.Telus (...Read More
(Updates with Rio no comment, analyst) Nov 10 (Reuters) - A gold stream is "probably the mostattractive" option for Canadian miner Turquoise Hill Resources as it seeks funding for a copper and gold project inMongolia, the head of mine financing company Wheaton PreciousMetals said on Tuesday. Turquoise Hill last week began arbitration proceedingsagainst its biggest shareholder Rio Tinto t...Read More