The latest forecasts from Fastmarkets' team of analysts are ready to view.Iron ore remains the most bullish commodity of the year, with prices fuelled by Chinese demand and supply disruptions in Brazil, along with bullish sentiment. But prices are expected to come down because Brazilian exports have begun to recover, and have reached their highest level since the Brumadinho dam disaster in 2019. W...Read More
The latest forecasts from Fastmarkets' team of analysts are ready to view.In the iron ore market, supply issues including heavy rains at the start of the year, followed by staffing problems during the Covid-19 pandemic, have affected exports from Brazil. This has helped Australia gain a larger market share, but since June, Brazilian export volumes have returned to levels last seen before the...Read More
Stainless steel prices continue to register new highs around the end of the first half of 2021 and steelmakers continue to enjoy outsized margins.They have responded in recent months by increasing their output, which has now pushed above pre-pandemic levels and will eventually restore balance to the market.For now, though, supply gaps are still being filled and buyers find themselves competing aga...Read More
The latest forecasts from Fastmarkets' team of analysts is ready to view.Recent weeks have brought two key developments with regard to trade policy on stainless steel products that will be to the detriment of consumers.In China, the country's stainless steelmakers no longer enjoy a 13% export rebate as of May 1, reducing greatly their incentive to export and instead leading them to focus on supply...Read More
The latest forecasts from Fastmarkets' team of analysts is ready to view.Stainless steel prices and margins for stainless steel producers have risen notably over the past few months in both Europe and the United States, but there are now signs that the rally is petering out.A clear reason for the halt to rising prices comes from the near 20% drop in nickel prices seen in late February/early March,...Read More
The latest forecasts from Fastmarkets' team of analysts is ready to view.With nickel prices down by almost 20% over the space of around ten days during late February and early March, one might have been expecting us to be reporting sharply-lower prices of stainless steel, at least for the most common nickel-containing grades of stainless steel.This is not the case, at least in Europe and the Unite...Read More
A bullish mood overtook the London Metal Exchange decisively on Friday September 10, with zinc, aluminium and nickel setting new year-to-date highs on a day that also saw copper volumes exceed 20,000 lots for the first time in three weeks.Aluminium's three-month price set a new 2021 peak of $2,937 per tonne, rising by 3.4% from Thursday's closing price and by 5.9% since the start of the week, when...Read More
An overview of the new energy materials markets and their price moves in the week to Friday September 10.Susan Zou, Yingchi Yang and...Read More
The zinc concentrate market remained broadly stable in the fortnight to Friday September 10, with smelters and traders reporting a quiet period but also a continued uptrend on treatment charges since August.Zinc spot concentrate TC, cif China was assessed at $75-92 per tonne on Friday, with the top end of the range rising by $2 since August 27.Smelters had reserved enough concentrate for the...Read More
An overview of the new energy materials markets and their price moves in the week to Friday September 10.Susan Zou, Yingchi Yang and...Read More
Key data from Fastmarkets' pricing sessions in Europe, China and the United States on Friday September 10.China The Chinese ferro-silicon market edged slightly higher while the main ferro-silicon production hubs - including Ningxia and Inner Mongolia - conducted production cuts to meet the dual control targets of energy consumption. Those output cuts have kept spot availability tight, with many pr...Read More
An overview of the specialty steel raw materials markets in Europe and their latest price moves.Cristina Belda, Dalila Ouerghi...Read More
The zinc concentrate market remained broadly stable in the fortnight to Friday September 10, with smelters and traders reporting a quiet period but also a continued uptrend on treatment charges since August.Zinc spot concentrate TC, cif China was assessed at $75-92 per tonne on Friday, with the top end of the range rising by $2 since August 27.Smelters had reserved enough concentrate for the...Read More
An overview of the consumer electronics markets and their latest price moves.Read More
An overview of the new energy materials markets and their price moves in the week to Friday September 10.Susan Zou, Yingchi Yang and...Read More
Turkey returned to the deep-sea steel scrap market with renewed vigor in the week to Friday September 10 although regional mills kept their prices stable at lower levels while those in Asia went up on healthy demand over the period.Turkey scrap prices stable after raft of deep-sea bookingsUnited States scrap export prices still in decline Vietnamese import interest renewed amid higher Chinese...Read More
The light-iron scrap market in the United Kingdom was steady during the week to Friday September 10, stabilizing losses from the week prior on persistent tight availability, despite slower export markets to deep-sea destinations, trade sources said.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for steel scrap 5C loose old light domestic, delivered inter-merchant, UK was ?170-185 ($235-255) per tonne...Read More
Prices for shredded steel scrap imports into Pakistan inched upward in the week to Friday September 10, supported by healthy demand, sources told Fastmarkets.Prices in India showed small week-on-week rises but have fluctuated in narrow ranges through the week, with trading activity limited.PakistanFastmarkets calculated its weekly steel scrap, shredded, index, import, cfr Port Qasim, Pakistan, at...Read More
Base metals prices were higher on both the LME and the SHFE this morning, Friday September 10, with the broader markets also up. Additionally, metals that were previously looking vulnerable now look less vulnerable, suggesting traders are still comfortable being exposed to the metals.United States president Joe Biden and China's leader Xi Jinping are meeting in an effort to improve relationsThe Eu...Read More
An overview of the new energy materials markets and their price moves in the week to Friday September 10.Susan Zou, Yingchi Yang and...Read More