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Price gains inspired by the trade developments at the Group of Twenty (G20) summit over the weekend were sold into during afternoon trading on Monday December 3. But likewise the dips have been bought into again this morning. Three-month base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange were up by an average of 0.5% on Tuesday morning, with all of the metals – bar nickel which was unchanged ...Read More
U.S. equity index futures were lower this morning. S&P 500 futures were down 7 points in pre-opening trade. Bank of Montreal (BMO $99.00) is expected to open higher after reporting higher than consensus fiscal fourth quarter earnings. The Bank also raised its quarterly dividend.Autozone gained $15.54 to $840.00 after reporting higher than consensus fiscal first quarter earnings.Dollar General...Read More
Steel billet prices continued to fall in most global regions during the working week from Monday November 26 to Friday November 30, due to a return of Chinese producers to the export market and a downturn in the Asian markets.Sentiment in the export billet market in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) became more depressed, while import prices in the Middle East and Turkey weakened in lin...Read More
Steel billet prices continued to fall in most global regions during the working week from Monday November 26 to Friday November 30, due to a return of Chinese producers to the export market and a downturn in the Asian markets.Sentiment in the export billet market in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) became more depressed, while import prices in the Middle East and Turkey weakened in lin...Read More
Some progress at the Group of Twenty (G20) summit on US-China trade has given the three-month base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange a boost, up by an average of 1.4%. The LME zinc price gained 1%, while copper was up 1.9% and recently quoted at $6,314 per tonne. Volume across the complex has, not surprisingly, been strong with 14,686 lots traded as at 6:53am London time. The precious met...Read More
U.S. equity index futures were higher this morning. S&P 500 futures were up 39 points in pre-opening trade. Strength is related to an agreement between China and the U.S. to postpone trade tariff escalation for the next 90 day. The Shanghai Composite Index jumped 67 points to 2,655.Caterpillar gained $5.93 to $141.60 after Bank of America/Merrill upgraded the stock to Buy from Neutral.Costco s...Read More
Base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange closed higher on Friday November 30, with zinc, lead and nickel the best performers of the day.Zinc was the strongest performer on Friday, with its three-month price rising 2.9% from Thursday to close at $2,542 per tonne. After consistently dipping since January, LME zinc stocks settled at a fresh 2018-low of 117,550 tonnes on Friday.W...Read More
An overview of the battery raw materials markets and their price moves from the past week.Read More
Comex copper prices experienced further weakness ahead of world leaders converging in Argentina for the Group of Twenty (G20) meeting this weekend.The copper price for March settlement on the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange fell 1.80 cents to $2.7735 per lb.Price movement is expected to be muted today with investors focusing on the weekend's G20 summit, where finance ministers.....Read More
South African manganese miner Assmang has declared force majeure on manganese ore shipments from the port of Saldanha, Fastmarkets heard on Friday November 30.Assmang has now joined fellow miner United Manganese of Kalahari (UMK) in making the declaration after South African state transport...Read More
South African manganese ore miner United Manganese of Kalahari (UMK) has declared force majeure on manganese ore shipments from the port of Saldanha, Fastmarkets MB understands.UMK, which produces just above 3 million tonnes per year of manganese ore, ships about half its monthly exports from Saldanha. South Africa's state transport...Read More
An overview of the battery raw materials markets and their price moves from the past week.Read More
Key data for the pricing session for the week ended Friday November 30. China The domestic ferro-chrome spot price stabilized on thin trading activity and sellers' unwillingness to cut their price further because current levels have been close to their production costs.The imported charge chrome market was lackluster this week while the market digested the consequences of a...Read More
South African transport operator Transnet is issuing force majeure notices to iron ore and manganese ore customers after a railway bridge was damaged near the port of Saldanha. All rail operation was suspended following the accident in the morning on Wednesday November 28 and will restart in two weeks, Transnet said. "The accident has damaged the railway line network and compromised the integrity...Read More
An overview of the minor metals markets and the reasons for any price moves.Read More
Global ferrous scrap prices continued to trend downward during the working week from Monday November 26 to Friday November 30, due to poor demand and lackluster sales of finished steel.Turkish scrap import prices and US export scrap prices fell due to weak market sentiment in Asia, while persistently poor demand continued to weigh on Asian scrap import prices. Indian import prices also slipped on...Read More
Sentiment in the European austenitic alloy scrap market has been negative and mills have continued to drag prices downward, sources told Fastmarkets on Friday November 30."Demand [for alloy steel scrap] is slow and sentiment in both the raw material and stainless steel markets is negative. The mills are trying to get...Read More