Chinese silicon exporters raised their offers in the week to Friday October 30, in line with quickly rising domestic prices that are being driven by higher production costs and tight prompt supply, sources told Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for silicon export 98.5% Si min, fob China was $1,680-1,720 per tonne on Friday, up by $50-80 (5.3%) from $1,600-1,630 per tonne a week earl...Read More
The latest forecasts from Fastmarkets' team of analysts is ready to view.While a world leader in many areas, the United States is a relatively small player when it comes to stainless steel. It produces a small amount of material, both in absolute and relative terms (i.e. compared to the size of its population), while a large share of its industry is in the hands of bigger European companies. Never...Read More
As competition in the global steel markets remains fierce, Fastmarkets provides an update on the new, progressing and closed trade cases from around the world in October 2020.The case list below includes only updates. For other continuing cases this year, see the updates for September, August, July, June, May, April, March, February and January this yea...Read More
Global silico-manganese output rose by 3.3% month on month in September, supported by rising production in Asia and Oceania, Europe, Africa and the Middle East, the latest data from the International Manganese Institute (IMnI) shows. Following a month-on-month rise of 0.6% in August, world supply of silico-manganese grew to around 1.50 million tonnes in September, marking a drop of 8.7% year on ye...Read More
Base metals prices on both the London Metal Exchange and Shanghai Futures Exchange were mainly stronger this morning, Tuesday November 3, after markets were encouraged by generally robust manufacturing purchasing managers’ index (PMI) data that came out on Monday.Regardless of who wins the US presidential election, the markets expect the liquidity pumps to remain switched on, which is su...Read More
U.S. equity index futures were higher this morning. S&P 500 futures were up 40 points in pre-opening trade.Bausch Health added $0.91 to US$18.25 after reporting higher than consensus third quarter revenues.Wayfair advanced $29.90 to $285.54 after reporting higher than consensus third quarter revenues and earnings.McKesson gained $5.97 to $158.00 after reporting higher than consensus fiscal sec...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Friday October 30 that are worth another look.The European Commission has set safeguard quota volumes for steel products imported from the United Kingdom starting from January 1, 2021.Aluminium stocks at Shanghai-bonded warehouses surged by over 200%...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Friday October 30 that are worth another look.The European Commission has set safeguard quota volumes for steel products imported from the United Kingdom starting from January 1, 2021.Aluminium stocks at Shanghai-bonded warehouses surged by over 200%...Read More
The European Commission has set safeguard quota volumes for steel products imported from the United Kingdom starting from January 1, 2021. The EC announced the quotas on Friday October 30. These will apply to several steel products, including hot-rolled, cold-rolled and hot-dipped galvanizing coil originating from the UK. Any volumes sold exceeding the quotas will be subject to 25% duty. "Pur...Read More
A summary of Glencore's 2020 third-quarter production report for the coal sector, released on Friday October 30, where the company maintained its 2020 full-year production guidance except coal, which was adjusted for the extended strike at the Cerrejon mine.In brief The company's year-to-date (YTD) coal production of 83.5 million tonnes was 20.5 million tonnes or 20% lower than the comparable prio...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Friday October 30 that are worth another look.The European Commission has set safeguard quota volumes for steel products imported from the United Kingdom starting from January 1, 2021.Aluminium stocks at Shanghai-bonded warehouses surged by over 200%...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Friday October 30 that are worth another look.The European Commission has set safeguard quota volumes for steel products imported from the United Kingdom starting from January 1, 2021.Aluminium stocks at Shanghai-bonded warehouses surged by over 200%...Read More
Now is not the time for Freeport-McMoRan to be thinking about mergers and acquisitions, the mining company's chief executive officer says.According to Richard Adkerson, the company - which is just over half-way through a mega-project to transform its giant Grasberg copper-gold mine in Indonesia from an open-pit to an underground operation - is on the verge of creating huge shareholder value."I jus...Read More
Plans for a London Metal Exchange spot trading platform have sparked intense debate within the aluminium industry. But opponents and supporters don't necessarily fall into the camps that one might expect. For starters, a decision by the LME not to change its futures contract, establish a new green aluminium contract or set thresholds to define what constitutes low-carbon metal is proving key in st...Read More
Sometimes it is better to let a situation speak for itself. Alcoa, Rio Tinto Aluminium, Novelis, Constellium, Arconic, Kaiser Aluminum, Tri-Arrows Aluminum, American Metal Chemical Corp, Hydro Extrusion North America, JW Aluminum, Real Alloy, Reynolds Consumer Products, Scepter, Silberline Manufacturing Co, Smelter Service Corp and Wagstaff. The US Aluminum Association, which represents more than...Read More
The latest forecasts from Fastmarkets' team of base metals analysts are ready to view.Aluminium: SHFE tailwind for LME pricesAs we are entering the traditional strong demand season, we expect Chinese aluminium demand to show further recovery, and we expect demand from existing end-user sectors, new infrastructure projects and the export sector to show some increases. As a result, we believe that S...Read More
The latest forecasts from Fastmarkets' team of base metals analysts are ready to view, including an upgrade to our aluminium price forecasts.Aluminium: Price forecasts raisedWe correctly expected the macro reflationary theme to raise the prices for all base metals but, with it being the base metal with by far the weakest fundamentals, we had expected the price of aluminium to underperform relative...Read More
The latest forecasts from Fastmarkets' team of analysts are ready to view.These include an increase in our copper mine disruption estimates, upgrades to our production outlook for Indonesian nickel pig iron (NPI), a smaller refined zinc surplus, and an upgrade to our zinc price forecasts.Aluminium: Big disconnect between price and fundamentalsAluminium has extended its uptrend on the London Metal...Read More
The latest forecasts from Fastmarkets' team of analysts are ready to view. We also review our price forecasting accuracy for the second quarter 2020.Q2 2020 price forecast performance review According to the results of Fastmarkets' Apex for the second quarter of 2020 published this week, Fastmarkets' base metals research team was the second most accurate price forecaster for nickel (99.06%), lead...Read More
The latest forecasts from Fastmarkets' team of analysts is ready to view.Approaching the end of the calendar year, steelmakers and consumers enter a busy period of contract negotiations for supply for 2021 or at least the first quarter or half year.With the sharp increases in spot market steel prices during recent months, steelmakers are understandably looking to take advantage and secure higher c...Read More