The seaborne coking coal market was steady on Thursday August 14, with market participants taking a wait-and-see approach amid this month's general decline in prices.A cargo of premium low-vol hard coking coal was heard offered at $168 per tonne cfr China while another shipment of similar materials was heard to have changed hands at around $169 per tonne cfr China.The transaction was not corrobora...Read More
The latest bids, offers and deals in the global markets for hot-rolled coil, cold-rolled coil, hot-dipped galvanized coil, pre-painted galvanized iron, steel plate, steel sheet and other flat steel products. Latest transaction: hot-rolled coilHot-rolled coilEast China, domestic, commercial-grade...Read More
Domestic stainless steel prices in China edged up further over the past week despite the European Union initiation of an anti-dumping investigation on products from the country and two other territories.Fastmarkets' price assessment for stainless steel cold-rolled coil 2mm grade 304 domestic, ex-whs China in the country's major market of Wuxi was 15,100-15,500 yuan ($2,148-2,205) per tonne includi...Read More
International inquiries for cobalt metal from China picked up quickly over the past week after the premium that the Chinese metal price holds against the European price narrowed sharply on Wednesday August 14.Fastmarkets assessed the price of cobalt 99.8% Co min, exw China at 270,000-280,000 yuan per tonne ($15.39-15.96 per lb, excluding China value-added tax) on Wednesday, down by 2.1% from 276,0...Read More
Southwestern China's Kunming Intermediate People's Court will auction for all of the 18,661 tonnes of antimony ingots held by the collapsed Fanya Metal Exchange in late August, according to an official notice seen by Fastmarkets on Thursday August 15.The antimony ingots - equivalent to about two months of global output - will be put up for auction from 10am Beijing time on August 31 until 10am on...Read More
Sellers successfully raised their spot offers for cobalt metal in the first half of this week against trader position taking and modest consumer restocking in anticipation of higher prices in the coming weeks. Fastmarkets assessed the price for cobalt standard grade, in-whs Rotterdam at $14.65-15.70 per lb on Wednesday August 14, up by 11% compared with last Friday's assessment of $13.05-14.30 per...Read More
Against the background of heavy economic and geopolitical clouds, markets are getting some lift on Friday August 16, presumably since they have absorbed all the latest gloomy news on global economy, trade, the unrest in Hong Kong and debt default concerns in Argentina. Gold, the yen and US and German government bonds, remain in high demand, which highlight the cautionary stance investors hold and...Read More
The Russell 2000 Index moved below support at1460.49 setting an intermediate downtrend.The Dow Jones Transportation Average moved below support at 9715.20 setting an intermediate downtrend. StockTwits released yesterday @EquityClockU.S. Telecommunications iShares $IYZ moved below $27.80 completing a double top pattern.US #Retail Trade up 3.0% (NSA) in July, much stronger than the unchanged re...Read More
* GRAPHIC-2019 asset returns: (Updates with closing prices) By Eric Onstad LONDON, Aug 15 (Reuters) - Copper slipped on Thursday afterChina said it would hit back against additional U.S. tariffs,fuelling fears over global growth and metals demand.Some other industrial metals, however, clawed higher in thinvolumes as investors closed out bearish positions. China has to take necessary counter-measur...Read More
A summary of London Metal Exchange warrant premiums from across the globe for the week to Wednesday August 14.Please click...Read More
The three-month price of zinc on the London Metal Exchange continued to slide at the close of trading on Wednesday August 14, slipping below the support level at $2,300 per tonne amid a 2.8% selloff, while tin futures held on to gains above the $17,000 per tonne threshold.Volumes traded over the day were moderately low, with copper's 13,234 lots topping the complex, while 11,200 lots of aluminium,...Read More
In the United States, the nickel 4x4 cut cathode premium weakened on the high end while nickel briquette premiums held their wide range, European market players eyed the forward curve and Chinese players maintained focus on the import window. US 4x4 nickel cut cathodes respond to falls from cheaper nickel forms European premiums steady but backwardation may signal a future sell-off Chinese premium...Read More
A series of press reports relating to the changes in Indonesia's nickel ore export ban policy amid volatile nickel prices on the London Metal Exchange has left market participants baffled, Fastmarkets understands.The latest news regarding Indonesian nickel exports claims that Indonesia's President Joko Widodo will make the final decision on whether the country will bring an export ban on mineral o...Read More
An overview of the minor metals markets and the reasons for any price moves.Read More
Steel mills in Turkey have remained out of the deep-sea scrap markets so far this week with trading limited by the Eid al-Adha religious holiday in the country, sources told Fastmarkets on Wednesday August 14.The Turkish market and those in other Middle Eastern territories will be closed until August 15 for Eid al-Adha; no new deals for cargoes were expected to be heard before then.As a...Read More
Trading volumes on the London Metal Exchange declined by 6% in the first half of 2019, parent company Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing (HKEX) said in its own half-year results announcement.HKEX said the chargeable average daily volume of contracts traded on the LME was 619,000 lots in the first six months of the year, compared with 659,000 lots during the same period...Read More
Alita Resources, formerly known as Alliance Mineral Assets and listed on the Australian and Singaporean securities exchanges, has suspended the trading of its securities as of Wednesday August 14 on the lower lithium prices. The company will be discussing its debt situation with lenders while negotiating with its spodumene offtake partners in the following weeks, Fastmarkets has learned. Oversuppl...Read More
Export prices for Chinese cold-rolled coil and hot-dipped galvanized coil dropped over the past week, largely due to limited buying interest arising from heightened trade tensions between China and the United States, market sources told Fastmarkets.The Chinese currency passed the 7-yuan per $1 threshold earlier this month after US president Donald Trump announced plans to impose 10% duties on...Read More
China's hot-rolled coil sellers raised prices on Wednesday August 14 amid gains in the country's financial markets after the United States took $156 billion worth of Chinese goods out of a list of items that is to start incurring a new 10% import tariff next month.DomesticEastern China (Shanghai): 3,720-3,730 yuan ($527-528) per tonne, up 20 yuan per tonneNorthern China (Tianjin): 3,720-3,730 yuan...Read More
Chinese output of hot metal, crude steel and finished steel all fell on a month-on-month basis in July amid weakening demand and steelmaking restrictions in the country's production hub in northern China. Demand in China's domestic market weakened last month amid bad weather - heavy rain in some regions and sweltering heat in most of the country - which was a major contributing factor for July's l...Read More