The biggest steel producer of the United Arab Emirates, Emirates Steel, decreased its rebar price to 2,957 dirhams ($805) per tonne ex-works for orders to be produced in August, effective Tuesday, July 27.The company's previous rebar price, in effect from Sunday June 27, was 3,012 dirhams per tonne ex-works. UAE demand for steel rebar and billet was low during the week to July 27 because buyers w...Read More
Domestic prices for hot-rolled coil in Europe declined day on day on Tuesday July 27 due to a combination of weak demand and competitive import offers, sources told Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets calculated its daily steel hot-rolled coil index, domestic, exw Northern Europe at ?,?1,146.46 ($1,351.87) per tonne on Tuesday July 27, down by ?,?8.90 per tonne from ?,?1,155.36 per tonne on July 26.The i...Read More
More than three-quarters of the effort to reduce carbon emissions to net-zero by 2050 will have to be made by the power sector and through faster adoption of wind and solar options, according to the New Energy Outlook 2021 report published last week by research consultancy BloombergNEF.Global energy-related emissions must drop to 30% below 2019 levels by 2030, and to 75% below by 2040, to be on tr...Read More
US-based carmaker Ford is to open a new center to develop, test and build vehicle battery cells and cell arrays at Romulus, in the US state of Michigan, accelerating the company's research and development into future battery manufacturing, the company has said.The new center will be called Ford Ion Park and will be part of the company's renewed commitment to making Michigan a center for its focus...Read More
* Senior judges say appeal has "real prospect of success" * Claimants' lawyers hail ruling as "monumental judgment" * BHP says proceedings do not belong in UK * 2015 dam failure caused Brazil's worst environmentaldisaster (Adds no comment from Vale) By Kirstin Ridley LONDON, July 27 (Reuters) - London's Court of Appeal made aU-turn on Tuesday by agreeing to reopen a $7 billion...Read More
Copper's three-month price on the London Metal Exchange rose to $9,809.50 per tonne at the close of trading on Monday July 26, an increase which led most other prices in the complex higher as well.The red metal closed near its intraday high of $9,826.50 per tonne, the highest for copper since June 15. Intense buying took its volumes on Monday to 24,000 lots traded by 5pm, also the highest since th...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Monday July 26 that are worth another look.China's drive to achieve peak carbon by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060 will likely mean a higher steel industry concentration ratio in time, sources told Fastmarkets.Norway-based aluminium and renewable...Read More
Base metals prices on the Shanghai Futures Exchange were up by an average of 1.1% this morning, Monday July 26, while they followed Friday's gains on the London Metal Exchange that averaged 1.3%. Chinese equities under pressure after authorities tighten regulationsPre-market western equity index futures showing a weaker startBase metalsLME three-month base metals prices were mainly weaker this mor...Read More
A summary of China's battery raw materials exports for June 2021.In brief Exports of cobalt tetroxide increased both month on month and year on year in June amid rising buying appetite from South Korea, the Netherlands and Belgium.Lithium carbonate exports fell slightly on a monthly...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Monday July 26 that are worth another look.China's drive to achieve peak carbon by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060 will likely mean a higher steel industry concentration ratio in time, sources told Fastmarkets.Norway-based aluminium and renewable...Read More
China's leading stainless steel producer, Tsingshan Group, has set its tender price for August-delivery ferro-chrome at 10,795 yuan ($1,665) per tonne, the company announced on Monday July 26. This is its highest tender price since September 2008.The tender price is also 2,400 yuan per tonne (29%) than what the eastern Chinese mill had sought for July-delivery material.Supply interruptions Market...Read More
The price of nickel ore narrowed upward amid limited supply in the week to Friday July 26 amid bad weather and increasing Covid-19 infections in southeast Asia, while the cargo liquefaction of nickel ores also concerned sources, Fastmarkets learned.Fastmarkets' latest assessment for the price of laterite ore with 1.5% Ni content, cif China was $78-80 per tonne on Friday July 23, up by $3 (1.0...Read More
Seaborne manganese ore markets were quiet during the week to Friday July 23, with low-grade manganese ore prices remaining under pressure from heavy stocks of South African material in Chinese ports.Fastmarkets' calculation of the manganese ore index, 37% Mn, cif Tianjin edged down by 7 cents per dry metric tonne unit (dmtu) to $4.58 per dmtu on Friday from $4.65 per dmtu on July 16.The index...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Monday July 26 that are worth another look.China's drive to achieve peak carbon by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060 will likely mean a higher steel industry concentration ratio in time, sources told Fastmarkets.Norway-based aluminium and renewable...Read More
A summary of China's battery raw materials exports for June 2021.In brief Exports of cobalt tetroxide increased both month on month and year on year in June amid rising buying appetite from South Korea, the Netherlands and Belgium.Lithium carbonate exports fell slightly on a monthly...Read More
A summary of China's battery raw materials exports for June 2021.In brief Exports of cobalt tetroxide increased both month on month and year on year in June amid rising buying appetite from South Korea, the Netherlands and Belgium.Lithium carbonate exports fell slightly on a monthly...Read More
A summary of China's battery raw materials imports for June 2021.In Brief Imports of cobalt intermediates increased in June with improved logistics and buying appetite increased due to rising downstream cobalt salts prices. Imports of cobalt metal decreased month on month with most materials being purchased by overseas buyers driven by...Read More
Domestic prices for hot-rolled coil inched down in Northern Europe but were unchanged in Italy on Monday July 26 due to limited trading activity, sources told Fastmarkets.Offers from Northern European suppliers remained limited. Mills in the region had good order books and could only offer fourth-quarter-production HRC, with some of them claiming to be sold out until the end of the year, sources s...Read More
Key data from the Friday July 23 pricing session in China.Key driversChina's spot domestic cobalt metal prices were broadly stable due to slight fluctuations in local future prices in the second half of the week. Most buyers kept holding watchful attitudes and only purchased small volumes of materials.The cobalt tetroxide market remained quiet...Read More
Domestic prices for hot-rolled coil were fairly stable in Europe over the week ended Friday July 23 due to a seasonal demand slowdown and limited availability.Firm offers were still scarce in the Northern European HRC market. Mills in the region had good order books and could only offer fourth-quarter production HRC, with some of them claiming to be sold out until the year-end.The already short su...Read More