Fastmarkets is launching a one-month consultation on several proposed updates to the wording of its assessment methodology. The proposed wording refinements do not materially alter the way Fastmarkets Metals & Mining assesses prices but are instead intended to describe the process more clearly to increase market participants' understanding of how editorial judgment is applied. The changes are not...Read More
The new infection cases in Eastern China's Nanjing city made some construction sites in a few districts slowing work, but didn't cause major influence in a large range and the rebar prices kept the upward trend on Friday July 30.DomesticEastern China (Shanghai): 5,340-5,370 yuan ($827-831) per tonne, up by 40 yuan per tonneNorthern China (Beijing) weekly assessment: 5,250-5,320 yuan per tonne, up...Read More
Fastmarkets is launching a one-month consultation on several proposed updates to the wording of its assessment methodology. The proposed wording refinements do not materially alter the way Fastmarkets Metals & Mining assesses prices but are instead intended to describe the process more clearly to increase market participants' understanding of how editorial judgment is applied. The changes are not...Read More
Key data from Fastmarkets' pricing session in China on Thursday July 29.Key drivers: The vanadium pentoxide price fell following the previous rally due to weakened crude steel manufacturing demand caused...Read More
The Cobalt alloy grade, in-whs Rotterdam, $/lbtrade log including business, bids and offers reported to Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets publishes trades logs for its key price assessments and indices to bring more transparencyinto the markets it covers and the pricing process it applies.Fastmarkets...Read More
Domestic prices for rebar in Poland were stable in week to Friday July 30 amid the seasonal slowdown, sources told Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets' price assessment for steel reinforcing bar (rebar), domestic, exw Poland was 4,000-4,150 zloty ($1,036-1,075) per tonne on Friday, unchanged week on...Read More
Domestic and imported steel beam prices rose in the United States on Thursday July 29 after remaining flat the prior month.Fastmarkets' monthly assessment for steel beams 8- x 8-in, fob mill US rose to $63 per hundredweight ($1,260 per short ton) on July 29, up by 5% from $60 per per cwt in May and June and up by 20% from $52.50 per cwt on April 29.Fastmarkets' assessment for steel beams medium se...Read More
The United States Midwest aluminium premiumhit another all-time high on Friday July 30, with bullish sellers boosting their offers after a workers' strike forced Rio Tinto to cut output at its Kitimat smelter in Canada.Fastmarkets assessed the aluminium P1020A premium, ddp Midwest US at 33-34 cents per lb on July 30, up by 6.35% from 31-32 cents per lb on July 27.Spot activity remained quiet...Read More
Fastmarkets is launching a one-month consultation on several proposed updates to the wording of its assessment methodology. The proposed wording refinements do not materially alter the way Fastmarkets Metals & Mining assesses prices but are instead intended to describe the process more clearly to increase market participants' understanding of how editorial judgment is applied. The changes are not...Read More
The volume of copper stocks held in Shanghai bonded warehouses has fallen from a 23-month high in mid-July because of an improving arbitrage window between London and Shanghai, Fastmarkets heard on Friday July 30.But over recent weeks, stocks of aluminium, nickel and zinc in the bonded zone have all increased.The fall in copper inventories, although small, was the first decrease in almost six mont...Read More
The light iron scrap market in the UK was unchanged on Friday July 30, but a change in direction was likely due to a recent drop on the export markets, sources have told Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for steel scrap 5C, loose old light, domestic, delivered inter-merchant, UK, was ?180-195 ($251-272) per tonne on Friday, unchanged at a multi-year high.Market participants expecte...Read More
Domestic prices for rebar in Poland were stable in week to Friday July 30 amid the seasonal slowdown, sources told Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets' price assessment for steel reinforcing bar (rebar), domestic, exw Poland was 4,000-4,150 zloty ($1,036-1,075) per tonne on Friday, unchanged week on...Read More
Hot-dipped galvanized and pre-painted galvanized coil prices were mostly stable in Turkey during the week to Friday July 30, amid moderate demand, sources told Fastmarkets.Most export destinations were in holiday season, when demand for exports typically slows, while local buying continued, producers said.Turkish producers held prices stable because they are fully booked for more than two months a...Read More
Steel scrap prices started to move downward in major international markets such as Turkey and the US East Coast export sector over the week ended Friday July 30, amid plentiful supply of scrap in some areas but tepid buying interest.Turkey import buy prices drop amid poor long steel salesRising scrap availability on US East Coast depresses export pricesVietnam remains out of import scrap market am...Read More
A surge in raw material prices, principally for direct-reduced iron (DRI), over the week ended Friday July 30 has led to Indian secondary billet prices rising by about 800 rupees ($11) per tonne.Fastmarkets assessed the price of steel billet, domestic, ex-works India, at 43,000-43,200 rupees ($579-582) per tonne on Friday, up by 800 rupees per tonne from last week's assessment at 42,200-42,400 rup...Read More
Chinese importers have been buying double the copper scrap from overseas under the category of 'recyclable copper material', yet its growth in secondary copper production is relatively modest. The country's import volume of copper scrap (HS code: 7404) almost doubled in the first half of 2021 to 821,376 tonnes. It is up 90.8% year on year from a base number affected by outbreak of Covid-19 in 2020...Read More
Lundin Mining's copper production was down during the first half of the year because planned lower grades at its Chapada mine reduced its output.The company's profit in the first half was up by 160% at $835.2 million, boosted by higher gold, copper and zinc prices.In brief: At 120,811 tonnes, copper production was down...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Thursday July 29 that are worth another look.Industrial group Thyssenkrupp has agreed the sale of its mining business to Danish engineering company FLSmidth, the German company said on July 29.Former schoolteacher and union leader Pedro Castillo...Read More
The London Metal Exchange's base metals prices were robust at the close of trading on Thursday July 29, supported in part by a US Dollar Index that reached its lowest since June 29 and fundamental factors affecting the metals themselves.The dollar index bottomed at 91.87 on Thursday, having reached a year-to-date high of 93.19 on June 21, following the US Federal Reserve bank's renewed dovish stat...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Thursday July 29 that are worth another look.Industrial group Thyssenkrupp has agreed the sale of its mining business to Danish engineering company FLSmidth, the German company said on July 29.Former schoolteacher and union leader Pedro Castillo...Read More