Market participants reported higher spot demand for rebar in Singapore in the week to Monday November 9, raising the import price by 0.5%. A number of smaller buyers were heard to be in the spot market looking for smaller cargoes, with a trader attempting to secure 40,000-50,000 tonnes of orders before sourcing for supply from Turkish steel mills. The buyers are sourcing January-shipment cargoes,...Read More
China's domestic rebar prices increased sharply on Monday November 9 to their highest since December 2019 on rising futures. DomesticEastern China (Shanghai): 4,030-4,060 yuan ($609-614) per tonne, up by 140 yuan per tonneStock and commodity markets in China strengthened during the day amid a bigger appetite for higher-risk investments among punters following the outcome to the United States presi...Read More
Base metals prices on both the London Metal Exchange and Shanghai Futures Exchange were mainly stronger this morning, Monday November 9, after markets reacted positively to Joe Biden winning the US presidential election and the resulting weaker dollar. China's unwrought copper imports climbed 43% in October, year on year. China total exports climbed by 11.4% in October from a year ago, while total...Read More
The cobalt alloy 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 transparencyinto the markets it covers and the pricing process it applies.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 transparencyinto the markets it covers and the pricing process it applies.Fastmarkets assessed cobalt...Read More
Key data from the pricing sessions in the United States, Europe and Asia for the week ended Friday November 6.China Chinese exporters raised offer prices mainly due to the recent rapid appreciation of the Chinese yuan against the US dollar and firm domestic prices. There was no deal concluded due to the big price discrepancies between offer prices and what overseas consumers could accept. The dome...Read More
Seaborne prices for both low and high-grade manganese ore in China continued to trend down in the week to Friday November 6 after miners lowered offer prices for December shipments on persistently weak sentiment, partly due to record high port inventories, sources told Fastmarkets.Lower offers sparked some buying interest and led to improved liquidity in the past week as a result, sources said. Fa...Read More
The domestic Chinese magnesium price picked up during the first week of November after producers raised their offer prices, however, weak downstream demand limited the price growth, sources said.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for magnesium 99.9%, exw China was 12,500-12,600 yuan ($1,890-1,906) per tonne on Friday November 6, an increase of 100 yuan per tonne from 12,400-12,500 yuan per tonne...Read More
The European Commission (EC) has ended an anti-subsidy investigation into hot-rolled stainless steel sheet and coil originating from China and Indonesia, the EC said on Monday November 9.The investigation was terminated after European steel association Eurofer withdraw a complaint on September 18, 2020. The EC started an anti-subsidy investigation on October 10, 2019 after Eurofer.....Read More
After seven consecutive weeks of decline, portside prices for low- and high-grade manganese ore in China halted their downtrends with the high-grade one even registering slight gains in the week to Friday November 6 on increased buying interest from alloy smelters. Fastmarkets' manganese ore port index, base 37% Mn, range 35-39%, fot Tianjin, China was 30.60 yuan ($4.63) per dry metric tonne...Read More
Chinese steel production has been enough to cushion the global vanadium market from weaker demand in Europe and the United States in the fall-out from the coronavirus pandemic, according to Paulo Misk, president and chief executive of Largo Resources. "China - the country we [in February] thought was most affected [by Covid] - actually saw a surge of vanadium consumption. In the first half of 2020...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...Read More
U.S. equity index futures were lower this morning. S&P 500 futures were down 6 points in pre-opening trade.Eli Lilly added $4.42 to $146.75 after the FDA approved the company's COVID 19 antibody treatment.Beyond Meat dropped $33.77 to $116.73 after reporting lower than consensus third quarter revenues and earnings.Raytheon Technologies added $1.53 to $66.52 after JP Morgan upgraded the stock f...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Friday November 6 that are worth another look.Brazilian flat-rolled steel producer Usiminas regained in October the levels of production and sales volumes it had enjoyed in March, after taking a heavy hit from the Covid-19 pandemic in the intervening seven months and...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Friday November 6 that are worth another look.Brazilian flat-rolled steel producer Usiminas regained in October the levels of production and sales volumes it had enjoyed in March, after taking a heavy hit from the Covid-19 pandemic in the intervening seven months and...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Friday November 6 that are worth another look.Brazilian flat-rolled steel producer Usiminas regained in October the levels of production and sales volumes it had enjoyed in March, after taking a heavy hit from the Covid-19 pandemic in the intervening seven months and...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Friday November 6 that are worth another look.Brazilian flat-rolled steel producer Usiminas regained in October the levels of production and sales volumes it had enjoyed in March, after taking a heavy hit from the Covid-19 pandemic in the intervening seven months and...Read More
Some container shipping lines are refusing to give rates for December shipments of scrap metal into South Asia and are even cancelling some existing orders, sources told Fastmarkets on Friday November 6.Four steel scrap traders that speak to Fastmarkets said they have either been unable to get December shipment quotations from their freight forwarders or are aware of others facing a similar situat...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Friday November 6 that are worth another look.Brazilian flat-rolled steel producer Usiminas regained in October the levels of production and sales volumes it had enjoyed in March, after taking a heavy hit from the Covid-19 pandemic in the intervening seven months and...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Friday November 6 that are worth another look.Brazilian flat-rolled steel producer Usiminas regained in October the levels of production and sales volumes it had enjoyed in March, after taking a heavy hit from the Covid-19 pandemic in the intervening seven months and...Read More