Most base metals registered declines in inventories at Shanghai Futures Exchange-registered warehouses during the week to Friday July 30, although lead was up by 6.5% and nickel rose by 1.5%.Out of the base metals complex, lead stocks gained the most in the week, rising to 168,421 tonnes, up by 10,348 tonnes - or 6.5% - from 158,073 tonnes one week ago. Lead stocks have now logged six straight wee...Read More
China's domestic hot-rolled coil prices rose on Friday July 30, while export prices held stable after tax authorities announced the cancellation of more steel export rebates.DomesticEastern China (Shanghai): 6,000-6,010 yuan ($929-930) per tonne, up by 60-80 yuan per tonneNorthern China (Tangshan): weekly assessment: 5,880-5,920 yuan per tonne, up by 160-190 yuan per tonne The most-traded HRC cont...Read More
The new infection cases in Eastern China's Nanjing city made some construction sites in a few districts slowing work, but didn't cause major influence in a large range and the rebar prices kept the upward trend on Friday July 30.DomesticEastern China (Shanghai): 5,340-5,370 yuan ($827-831) per tonne, up by 40 yuan per tonneNorthern China (Beijing) weekly assessment: 5,250-5,320 yuan per tonne, up...Read More
The three-month aluminium contract on the London Metal Exchange hit a new year-to-date high of $2,615 per tonne in morning trading on Friday July 30, while zinc moved back above the $3,000-per-tonne psychological level.Aluminium gained 0.9% from Thursday's closing price of $2,591 per tonne and is set for a 4.3% increase this month. It started the month at $2,507.50 per tonne on July 1. Sentiment i...Read More
The global manganese ore and alloy price and their recent price movesIndiaThe market was stable after declining for three weeks, with demand in Europe drying up due to the holiday season and soaring freight costs. Sentiment remained bearish this week with traders reporting prices may fall further once consumers return to the market.EuropeThe European silico-manganese market...Read More
An overview of the aerospace materials markets and the latest price moves.Jessica Long, Ruby Liu and Carrie...Read More
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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...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 transparencyinto the markets it covers and the pricing process it applies.Fastmarkets...Read More
Key data from Fastmarkets' pricing session in China on Thursday July 29.Key drivers: The vanadium pentoxide price fell following the previous rally due to weakened crude steel manufacturing demand caused...Read More
The Vietnamese steel market remained in a state of shutdown during the week ended Friday July 30 due to a worsening of the Covid-19 pandemic situation in the country, which limited interest in imported scrap, sources told Fastmarkets.Offers for bulk Japanese H2-grade material were heard at $485 per tonne cfr Vietnam, although there was a bid at $480 per tonne cfr Vietnam by a southern Vietnamese s...Read More
Spot prices for imported scrap into China were unchanged on Friday July 30 amid limited negotiations between buyers and sellers."There are hardly any offer prices for cfr China scrap in the market now. Prices for heavy scrap (HS) in Japan are quite high, which makes export deals to China very hard to clinch," a Japanese exporter source told Fastmarkets.The source indicated a market level for HS in...Read More
Weaker demand for imported containerized ferrous scrap in Taiwan as a result of lower operating rates among electric-arc furnace operators and surging Covid-19 cases in many parts of Asia dampened spot prices in the week to Friday July 30.Fastmarkets' daily price assessment for containerized steel scrap, heavy melting scrap 1&2 (80:20), United States material import, cfr main port Taiwan was $440...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Thursday July 29 that are worth another look.Industrial group Thyssenkrupp has agreed the sale of its mining business to Danish engineering company FLSmidth, the German company said on July 29.Former schoolteacher and union leader Pedro Castillo...Read More
The London Metal Exchange's base metals prices were robust at the close of trading on Thursday July 29, supported in part by a US Dollar Index that reached its lowest since June 29 and fundamental factors affecting the metals themselves.The dollar index bottomed at 91.87 on Thursday, having reached a year-to-date high of 93.19 on June 21, following the US Federal Reserve bank's renewed dovish stat...Read More
Chinese importers have been buying double the copper scrap from overseas under the category of 'recyclable copper material', yet its growth in secondary copper production is relatively modest. The country's import volume of copper scrap (HS code: 7404) almost doubled in the first half of 2021 to 821,376 tonnes. It is up 90.8% year on year from a base number affected by outbreak of Covid-19 in 2020...Read More
Lundin Mining's copper production was down during the first half of the year because planned lower grades at its Chapada mine reduced its output.The company's profit in the first half was up by 160% at $835.2 million, boosted by higher gold, copper and zinc prices.In brief: At 120,811 tonnes, copper production was down...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Thursday July 29 that are worth another look.Industrial group Thyssenkrupp has agreed the sale of its mining business to Danish engineering company FLSmidth, the German company said on July 29.Former schoolteacher and union leader Pedro Castillo...Read More
A multi-country trade case involving silicon metal imported to the United States concluded on Wednesday July 28, when the US International Trade Commission (ITC) decided to apply the recommended 12.27% anti-dumping duty on Malaysian silicon imports."The United States International Trade Commission today determined that a US industry is materially injured by reason of imports of silicon metal from...Read More
Fastmarkets has modified the name of one of its Japan steel scrap export prices to reflect the product's usage in the market.Heavy scrap (HS) is a grade of obsolete scrap traded widely in the Japan and South Korea market, used for material of equivalent quality to plate and structural (P&S).Fastmarkets' price assessment for Japan export HS had previously been named steel scrap, plate and structura...Read More