Hot-rolled coil prices in China's domestic market extended their gains on Friday June 4, as the futures prices saw another choppy trading session.DomesticEastern China (Shanghai): 5,580-5,630 yuan ($872-879) per tonne, up by 30 yuan per tonne.Northern China (Tangshan) weekly assessment: 5,520-5,580 yuan per tonne, up by 170-200 yuan per tonne.Friday's small increase in spot prices came with gains...Read More
China's domestic rebar prices edged up on Friday June 4 on stronger demand ahead of the weekend, ending the week 200-yuan-per-tonne above the previous Friday's close in the eastern region, sources said.DomesticEastern China (Shanghai): 5,030-5,060 yuan ($785-790) per tonne, widening upward by 10 yuan per tonne.Northern China (Beijing) weekly assessment: 5,160-5,200 yuan per tonne, up by 160-170 yu...Read More
Dip-buying activity took most base metals prices higher on the morning of Friday June 4 on the London Metal Exchange, following an average fall of 2.5% on Thursday due to a strengthening dollar and positive employment data from the United States. The dollar index has risen over the past two days, coming to a high of 90.63 on Friday morning, amid concerns about the US Federal Reserve slowing down i...Read More
Base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange have attracted dip-buying this morning, Friday June 4, after weakness on Thursday when prices fell across the board by an average of 2.2%. At the same time, prices on the Shanghai Futures Exchange were weaker this morning while they reacted to yesterday's weakness on the LME.Thursday's strong US data, including employment data, bodes well for today's...Read More
An overview of the specialty steel raw materials markets in Europe and their latest price moves.Ewa Manthey, Charlotte...Read More
An overview of the aerospace materials markets and the latest price moves.Charlotte Radford and Michael Greenfield in...Read More
Fastmarkets has corrected its manganese 99.7% electrolytic manganese flake, in-whs Rotterdam price, which was published incorrectly on Friday June 4 due to an error. Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for manganese 99.7% electrolytic manganese flake, in-whs Rotterdam (MB-MN-0001) was originally published at $3,350-3,475 per tonne on June 4. It should have been $3,350-3,550 per tonne. Fastma...Read More
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 assessed Cobalt...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 assessed Cobalt alloy...Read More
The Cobalt hydroxide payable indicator, min 30% Co, cif China, % payable of Fastmarkets' standard-grade cobalt price (low-end) 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 assessed Cobalt hydroxide p...Read More
The Cobalt sulfate 20.5% Co basis, exw China, yuan/tonne 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
Key data from Fastmarkets' pricing sessions in China, Europe and the United States on Friday June 4.China The ferro-silicon market became bullish following news that a major Malaysian ferro-silicon producer has issued a two-week production suspension, with supply shifting to China and suppliers' offers broadly holding offers firm. The export ferro-silicon price went higher due to tight spot availa...Read More
Key data from Fastmarkets' pricing session in London on Friday June 4.Key drivers Molybdic oxide prices surge on continued concerns over nearby availability. A tight container market with uncertain shipment timings, and concerns over availability of material coming from...Read More
Prices for steel scrap imported into China were stable on Friday June 4 amid very few negotiations going on between buyers and sellers in the market.Fastmarkets' daily price assessment for steel scrap, heavy recycled steel materials, cfr China, which takes into account prices at ports in eastern China, was $510-530 per tonne on Friday, unchanged from a day earlier.The highest bids on Friday were h...Read More
An accident at Kaohsiung port, Taiwan, in which a tower crane collapsed on Thursday June 3 will likely have minimal impact on discharge rates for containerized ferrous scrap in the coming days, market sources told Fastmarkets.The ship-to-shore gantry crane crashed to the ground after the empty 316-meter-long containership, OOCL Durban, collided with the 32,270-gross-tonne Yong Hung, anchored at Pi...Read More
Key data from Fastmarkets' pricing sessions in China, Europe and the United States on Friday June 4. China Seaborne low- and high-grade manganese ore markets jumped as much as 12.31% after miners raised offers for July shipment amid protracted high freight rates and a strengthening South African rand. Sentiment was boosted by news that Ningxia province, China's second largest silico-ma...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Thursday June 3 that are worth another look.Russia's largest steelmaker, Novolipetsk Steel (NLMK), will start producing hot-briquetted iron (HBI) and increase its iron ore and pellet output by 2027-2028, the company told Fastmarkets.BHP, the majority owner and operator of...Read More
Positive employment data from the United States boosted the Dollar Index to its highest level since mid-May and triggered a selloff on the London Metal Exchange on Thursday June 3, with most metals' prices going down by 2-3%.Copper's three-month contract on the LME was most affected on Thursday, with its closing price falling by 3.5% to $9,788.50 per tonne at the 5pm close, from $10,147 per tonne...Read More
The world's second-largest copper mine, currently in expansion, will send 40% of its copper concentrate output in Phase 1 to a domestic smelter in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), with negotiations to sell their copper output still underway, sources said.Kamoa Copper, operating out of Kamoa Kakula mine, signed a ten-year agreement with Lualaba copper smelter (LCS), of China Nonferrous Metal...Read More
Ukraine's Privat Group, a major producer of manganese alloys, hit a monthly production target for May of almost 59,000 tonnes at its Nikopol ferro-alloys plant, up by about 2,000 tonnes from April amid strengthening European prices this year, an industry source said.Privat is also considering whether to start an additional silico-manganese furnace at Nikopol, which would use low-phosphorus slag as...Read More