An overview of the battery raw materials markets and their latest price moves.Read More
The pace of decline in the Chinese domestic battery grade lithium carbonate price has accelerated entering December with increasingly lower offer prices in the spot market from Chinese producers eager to destock in the week ended Thursday December 5. China's battery grade lithium carbonate price downtrend has accelerated due to lower spot offer prices and sporadic downstream buying. The techn...Read More
Domestic prices for hot-rolled coil in Northern Europe edged up on Friday December 6, but transaction prices are expected to soon rise more significantly, sources told Fastmarkets. Fastmarkets' steel hot-rolled coil index domestic, exw Northern Europe, was ?,?432.6 ($478.11) per tonne on December 6, edging up from ?,?431.63 per tonne on Thursday.The calculation is based on "workable" pri...Read More
Indian importers have started booking hot-rolled coil after a break of three months, after the latest round of domestic price increases made HRC imports commercially viable.Fastmarkets' assessment for steel HRC, import, cfr main port India, was $480-485 per tonne on Friday December 6, compared with $450-455 per tonne last week. The latest assessment is based on South Korea-origin HRC import bookin...Read More
Turkish prices for hot-dipped galvanized coil (HDG), and color-coated coil or pre-painted galvanized iron (PPGI), increased in the week to Friday December 6, and most producers stopped accepting new orders because they are planning to raise prices further, sources told Fastmarkets.Steel prices have increased due to higher raw materials and hot-rolled coil prices, they added.Fastmarkets' daily inde...Read More
Brazil's domestic rebar price was unchanged in December while market participants braced for an upcoming hike in January amid higher demand.Fastmarkets assessed the price for steel reinforcing bar (rebar) domestic monthly, delivered Brazil at 2,220-2,320 Reais ($528-552) per tonne on Friday December 6, unchanged from the previous month but up by 1.7% from 2,165-2,300 Reais per...Read More
China's domestic rebar prices continued dropping on Friday December 6 as mills maintained high levels of production over the week. Eastern China (Shanghai): 3,870-3,900 yuan ($549-554) per tonne, down 70 yuan per tonneNorthern China (Beijing): 3,630-3,670 yuan per tonne, down 40 yuan per tonneRebar output at major Chinese mills totaled 3.63 million tonnes over the week ended Thursday, up 70,0...Read More
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Global scrap prices in most major markets moved upward during the week ended Friday December 6, due to good demand and a shortage of material in some locations. Prices jump in Turkey on newest tradesUS market activity picks up at higher pricesIndian price move up on material shortagePrices continue to move up in VietnamTaiwan maintains strong demand and solid pricesTurkeyTurkish steel mills booked...Read More
The price of austenitic alloy steel scrap fell this week after further losses in the nickel market, sources told Fastmarkets on Friday December 6. Fastmarkets' price assessment for stainless steel scrap 18/8 solids, domestic, delivered merchants UK, ?720-780 ($946-1,025) per tonne on Friday, down ?,?20-30 per tonne week on...Read More
The price of ferrous scrap imported into India moved up again this week ahead of a seasonal slowdown for the European holiday season, sources told Fastmarkets on Friday December 6.Fastmarkets' steel scrap, shredded, index, import, cfr Nhava Sheva was $286.46 per tonne on Friday, up from $282.56 per tonne one week previous.One deal was heard for shredded material into India at $291 per tonne this w...Read More
Slab export prices from Brazil increased this past week, but most negotiations were paused due to the threat of tariffs by the United States against imports of Brazilian steel.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for steel slab exports, fob Brazil, was $370-395 per tonne fob on Friday December 6, up from $360-380 per tonne fob on November 29.The upper end of the range reflected recent offers...Read More
CIS export billet gained $10 per tonne in the week to Friday December 6, with customers accepting deals at higher prices in response to rising scrap costs.Fastmarkets' daily steel billet index, export, fob Black Sea, CIS was $400 per tonne fob Black Sea on Friday, against $390 per tonne fob on the same day last week.Sales of CIS-origin billet were done to North Africa...Read More
China's domestic rebar prices continued dropping on Friday December 6 as mills maintained high levels of production over the week. Eastern China (Shanghai): 3,870-3,900 yuan ($549-554) per tonne, down 70 yuan per tonneNorthern China (Beijing): 3,630-3,670 yuan per tonne, down 40 yuan per tonneRebar output at major Chinese mills totaled 3.63 million tonnes over the week ended Thursday, up 70,0...Read More
The price of grade-304 stainless steel flat products in Europe fell significantly over the past week on substantially lower monthly alloy surcharges for December, sources told Fastmarkets on Friday December 6.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for stainless steel cold-rolled sheet, 2mm, grade-304, transaction domestic, delivered North Europe, was ?,?2,130-2,150 ($2,363-2,385) per tonne on Friday...Read More
Brazil's domestic rebar price was unchanged in December while market participants braced for an upcoming hike in January amid higher demand.Fastmarkets assessed the price for steel reinforcing bar (rebar) domestic monthly, delivered Brazil at 2,220-2,320 Reais ($528-552) per tonne on Friday December 6, unchanged from the previous month but up by 1.7% from 2,165-2,300 Reais per...Read More
Sir Brian Bender has seen three London Metal Exchange chief executive officers, the sale to Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing and a great number of other changes over more than nine years as the exchange's chairman, he told Fastmarkets in an interview, but the open outcry system will remain for as long as members support it. Bender was on holiday in Australia when a headhunter emailed to ask whether...Read More
Expectations for a recovery in Brazilian steel demand this year have been postponed to 2020 since the economy did not grow as previously forecast, national steel institute A??o Brasil said on Thursday December 5.The institute forecast apparent steel consumption at 21.78 million tonnes next year, a 5.2% increase from the 20.71 million tonnes expected in 2019. This year's outlook was cut f...Read More
With competition in the global steel markets still fierce, Fastmarkets provides an update on the new, progressing and closed trade cases from around the world in November 2019.1. US: stainless pressure pipe from China, Malaysia, Thailand and VietnamRead More
Key data from the pricing sessions in Asia, Europe and the United States for the week ended Friday December 6. China Domestic 75-grade alloy prices dropped for the first time since late September in response to the bearish outlook for the forthcoming steel mill tender prices for deliveries of 72-grade alloy, in addition to falling downstream magnesium prices and persistent weak exports.Sentiment...Read More