Seaborne coking coal prices experienced mild movements on Monday July 8, with spot trading activity remaining robust.A cargo of top-quality product was traded at around 190-191 per tonne fob Australia. The shipment is bound for Malaysia, sources said during the day.A shipment of premium mid-vol materials was heard to have changed hands at $190 per tonne cfr China. This price is similar to that for...Read More
Import prices for rebar in Singapore rose in the past week due to the rising cost of ferrous scrap.The weekly Fastmarkets MB price assessment for steel reinforcing bar (rebar) import, cfr Singapore - which mainly looks at cargoes sold into Singapore on a theoretical-weight basis - was $490-495 per tonne cfr for the week to Monday July 8, up $15 from $475-480 per tonne cfr from a week earlier.Ferro...Read More
The Queensland Resources Council (QRC) will hold discussions with the Australian government, mining unions and workers this week regarding action that can be taken to increase safety across the sector. This follows a fatal accident over the weekend at the Baralaba North mine - located in the Bowen Basin of Australia's Queensland state - that led to the death of a worker. The Middlemount mine, loca...Read More
Northern China's rebar prices weakened on Monday July 8 while those in the country's eastern region held steady, with market participants still taking a wait-and-see approach after iron ore prices plunged last week.Domestic Eastern China (Shanghai): 3,970-4,000 yuan ($576-580) per tonne, unchangedNorthern China (Beijing): 3,900-3,940 yuan per tonne, down 10-20 yuan per tonneMarket participants wer...Read More
Key data from the pricing sessions in Asia and Europe for the week ended Friday July 5. China Key drivers The antimony MMTA standard grade II ddp China price ended five weeks of stability last week, softening by 0.6% week on week. The price dropped after some Chinese antimony producers in southwestern Yunan, Guizhou provinces and southern Guangxi province were heard to have cut their o...Read More
Key data from the pricing sessions in Asia and Europe for the week ended Friday June 5.China Key drivers Good supply coupled with persistently weak demand pushed the Chinese silicon export price to its lowest level since September 2016. Most silicon producers in Fujian province have shut down operations because of the cancellation of cheaper electricity prices in the third quarter by t...Read More
Key data from the Friday July 5 pricing session in Shanghai. Key drivers China's cobalt market broadly remained under pressure on weak demand last week, with metal and tetroxide prices dropping 1.8% and 1.6% respectively on Friday from the midweek pricing session. The cobalt metal price dropped by 8,000 yuan at the high end, which usually represents the...Read More
Key data from the July 5 pricing session in London. Key driversThe benchmark standard grade cobalt price fell to its lowest level in 32 months, with spot demand slow over the summer. Sellers are cutting their offer prices, or targeting the lower end of Fastmarkets' price range to lock in trades. Some sellers said they might be open to taking a bid below...Read More
A sharp drop in July ferro-chrome tender prices from China's leading mills triggered a further slide in spot ore and alloy prices last week. Spot ferro-chrome price dropped by 4.6% in ChinaUG2 chrome ore slid againAlloy prices under pressure in Japan and South KoreaEuropean alloy prices weaken again Chrome ore and ferro-chrome prices dropped in China in the week ended Friday July 5 after mills an...Read More
India's Ministry of Commerce & Industry has initiated an anti-dumping investigation into imports of flat-rolled stainless steel from 15 regions.The investigation covers flat-rolled stainless steel products imported between 2015 and March 2019, under HS code codes 7219 and 7220, from China, South Korea, the European Union, Japan, Taiwan, Indonesia, the United States, Thailand, South Africa, Me...Read More
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