China's growing focus on antimony smuggling along the China-Vietnam border has left many in the antimony market worried they will not get their contracts fulfilled. ...Read More
The prices of base metals on the London Metal Exchange were higher across the board at the close of trading on Thursday August 16, with lead prices topping broad complex gains amid sharp upticks in copper, zinc and nickel prices. ...Read More
Physical iron ore was traded at lower prices on Thursday August 16 following further losses in the paper market....Read More
Lower offers on a trading platform in contrast with actual transactions for seaborne coking coal on Thursday August 16 have left market participants in a state of confusion....Read More
Copper concentrates TC/RCs were largely unchanged in early August, with threats of Chinese tariffs on US imports the focus of the market....Read More
The import market for hot-briquetted iron (HBI) in Italy has been largely quiet this week because of summer holiday absences, Metal Bulletin heard on Thursday August 16....Read More
Comex copper prices saw some short-covering on the morning of Thursday August 16 in the United States amid hopes of a trade agreement between China and the US....Read More
Workers at Chile's Caserones copper mine will not strike this week, the union at the mine said in a statement on Wednesday August 15....Read More
Young Poong's Sukpo zinc smelter is operating normally and has not been shutdown for environmental reasons, the company told Metal Bulletin in a statement today on August 16....Read More
Chilean copper mining group Antofagasta has seen the value of its shares slip by more than 4% since publication of its latest financial report on Tuesday August 14, which detailed short-term copper demand and lower earnings....Read More
The pricing spread for imported rebar has slightly widened following President Donald Trump's decision to double the Section 232 tariffs against Turkey, effectively halting Turkish steel shipments into the United States....Read More
Turkish billet prices have gone down sharply over the past week amid the economic and political problems in the country, sources said on Thursday August 16....Read More
Turkish domestic rebar and wire rod prices have gone down sharply when priced in US dollars despite increasing on a lira basis, sources said on Thursday August 16....Read More
Turkish rebar export prices have sharply declined this week while the trade tensions between Turkey and the US deepen, sources said on Thursday August 16....Read More
Steel billet import prices in Egypt continued to fall in the week to Thursday August 16, with lower offers coming in from the CIS and Turkey, while domestic rebar prices remained unchanged....Read More
The latest bids, offers and deals in the global markets for steel billet, slab and bloom. ...Read More
The UK steel industry has raised several concerns over the implications of a "no-deal" Brexit scenario, industry group UK Steel said in a briefing paper released last week....Read More
The outlook for cold-rolled coil (CRC) in Europe remains positive despite a slow market, sources told Metal Bulletin on Thursday August 16....Read More
Key data from Metal Bulletin's Wednesday August 15 pricing session in China....Read More
News that trade talks between China and the United States will take place later this month has sparked risk-on sentiment in the London Metal Exchange base metals complex this morning. Also, the risk of a ‘Lira contagion’ has subsided considerably after Turkish central bank intervened. Further support arrived in the form of $15 billion investment from Qatar into the Turkish economy, shori...Read More