Further reductions in the domestic output of hot-rolled coil in Europe, combined with the continuing lack of competitive import offers, has been supporting domestic prices in the region, sources told Fastmarkets on Thursday January 23.Fastmarkets' daily steel hot-rolled coil index, domestic, ex-works Northern Europe, was ?,?461.18 ($511.20) per tonne on Thursday, compared with ?,?462.38 per tonne...Read More
The Chinese government published the long-awaited non-ferrous scrap metal renaming criterion on its website late on Friday January 17. This is the latest policy adopted by the world's biggest scrap metal importer. Copper scrap, of copper content ranging 94-99.9% and meeting certain impurities thresholds, will be renamed under five categories of renewable materials. Below is a table translated and...Read More
Freeport-McMoRan's Indonesian unit is in financing discussions with a syndicate of banks for its new $3 billion copper smelter and expects the project will be funded by a bank loan. The United States producer, one of the project's joint venture partners, said that the economics of PT-FI's share of the new smelter will be shared by its shareholders according to their respective share ownership perc...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets MB stories you might have missed on Thursday January 23 that are worth another look.The digitalization of global trade received another push this week, with the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the government of Singapore and industry participants signing an agreement to facilitate and accelerate the adoption of technologies in commerce at the World Economic Forum...Read More
The latest bids, offers and deals in the global markets for rebar, wire rod, steel beams and other long steel products....Read More
Hudbay Minerals has appointed Peter Kukielski the company's president and chief executive officer, the copper-zinc miner said on Wednesday January 22.Kukielski has been serving as interim president and CEO of Hudbay since July 2019, a period which coincides with a US District Court blocking the company's Rosemont project."We are very pleased to appoint Peter as Hudbay's president and chief executi...Read More
LME three-month copper fell to its lowest price since December 5 on Thursday January 23, dipping belowthe $6,000-per-tonne support level at the close amid strong turnover, while tin led the complex in terms of losses. Copper's outright price on the London Metal Exchange closed at $5,987 per tonne this afternoon, falling from an intraday high of $6,116 per tonne, while turnover was at its highest l...Read More
The seaborne coking coal market was quiet on Thursday January 23 with many participants in China already away for the Chinese New Year, though a mysterious respiratory virus that is spreading across the country is clouding the outlook for prices.Fastmarkets indicesPremium hard coking coal, fob DBCT: $152.29 per tonne, unchangedPremium hard coking coal, cfr Jingtang: $162.73 per tonne, unchangedHar...Read More
The three-month aluminium price on the London Metal Exchange dipped below nearby support levels during morning trading on Thursday January 23 on a rewarranting of 68,875 tonnes, while copper's price struggles continued. Aluminium's outright price on the LME was recently at $1,797 per tonne, 0.7% below Wednesday's closing price of $1,811 per tonne and sinking below the key threshold. Turnover in a...Read More
Alumina prices rose in an active week of trading ahead of the week-long Lunar New Year holidays starting on January 24 in China, which market participants say will dampen liquidity through the rest of January. Fastmarkets calculated the benchmark daily alumina index, fob Australia at $277.92 per tonne on Thursday, up from 275.93 per tonne last Thursday. The index has been range-bound so far in 202...Read More
Turkish deep-sea scrap import prices went down once again on the news of a fresh deal for a UK-origin cargo heard on Thursday January 23.The cargo was booked late on January 22 by a steel mill in the Iskenderun region at $277 per tonne cfr for 22,000 tonnes of HMS 1&2 (80:20).This transaction compared with the most recent cargo sold at $295 per tonne cfr for HMS 1&2 (95:5) from the United States o...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets MB stories you might have missed on Thursday January 23 that are worth another look.The digitalization of global trade received another push this week, with the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the government of Singapore and industry participants signing an agreement to facilitate and accelerate the adoption of technologies in commerce at the World Economic Forum...Read More
Exports of non-ferrous scrap from the United States increased by 3.7% in the first 11 months of last year, reaching more than 2.8 million short tons, with aluminium the only metal to register an increase during the period.Zinc, meanwhile, recorded the biggest year-on-year decline, with shipments abroad falling by 23.2% to 31,940 tons from January-November 2019 versus the same period the previ...Read More
Hudbay Minerals has appointed Peter Kukielski the company's president and chief executive officer, the copper-zinc miner said on Wednesday January 22.Kukielski had been serving as interim president and CEO of Hudbay since July 2019, a period that coincides with a US District Court blocking the company's Rosemont project."We are very pleased to appoint Peter as Hudbay's president and chief executiv...Read More
Chilean state-run copper producer Codelco started production from the expansion to its El Teniente division on Thursday January 23, 10 months ahead of schedule, the company said on the day.The expansion is the first step in a project that will increase mine life by 50 years by 2023, Codelco added.The miner has invested $759 million in phase 1 of the expansion, called the Recursos Norte project, wh...Read More
Prices for some imported flat steel products moved up again in the United States, with importers reluctant to bring in competitive offers from overseas due to a lack of buying interest.Market participants previously said that imports could become attractive again after a collective effort by domestic flat-rolled steel mills to push prices up. While prices for domestic flat-rolled steel produc...Read More
Hot-rolled coil prices in the United States moved closer to $30.50 per hundredweight on Thursday January 23 despite deep unease among some steel buyers about staying power at that level.Fastmarkets' daily steel hot-rolled coil index, fob mill US was calculated at $30.44 per cwt ($608.80 per ton) on Thursday, up 1.4% from $30.03 per cwt the previous day but down 1% from $30.75 per cwt a week e...Read More
The price of billet in Turkish markets has gone down over the past week on decreasing imported scrap values, sources said on Thursday January 23.The billet offers from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) slipped to as low as $410 per tonne cfr levels, downfrom last week's minimum levels of $415 per tonne. Only one firm bid was heard at $408 per tonne cfr, according to sources.Fastmarkets'...Read More
With the calendar having shifted to 2020, opportunities and threats abound for steel and steelmaking raw materials markets across the world.In this special report, we take you around the globe to provide you with a...Read More
Domestic prices for rebar and wire rod in Turkey have gone down over the past week amid lower imported scrap values and limited winter demand, sources said on Thursday January 23.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for steel reinforcing bar (rebar), domestic, exw Turkey, was 2,975-3,030 Turkish lira ($501-511) per tonne, including 18% VAT, on January 23. This was down from the 3,050-3,060 lira pe...Read More