Three-month base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange continued to give mixed performances this morning, Thursday November 22. Zinc and lead showed weakness with prices down by 0.4% and 0.3% respectively, while tin prices were up by 0.3%. The rest were little changed, with the three-month copper price up by 0.1% at $6,242 per tonne.Volume has been below average with 4,562 lots traded as at 7...Read More
RAPAPORT... Mountain Province's average selling price rose at itsNovember tender amid strong demand for higher-value goods and a slightimprovement in the market for smaller rough. The miner garnered $72 per carat from the sale of 245,751carats of rough diamonds from its Gahcho Ku?(C) mine in Canada, bringing in atotal of $17.7 million, it said last week. That compares with $66 per carat inOct...Read More
RAPAPORT... Bonhams will offer an 18.04-carat diamond at its FineJewelry sale in New York next month, estimating the piece at $400,000 to$600,000. The emerald-cut, G-color, VS2-clarity diamond flanked bytrillion-cut diamonds will head up the auction on December 3 at the company'sMadison Avenue location, Bonhams said Thursday. "This is a beautiful example of a large, white diamondexhibiting sensat...Read More
RAPAPORT... Polished-diamond imports to Hong Kong increased 11% in thethird quarter, according to data from the Diamond Federation of Hong Kong,China. The average price of imports jumped 15%, offsetting the lower volumes -a trend that reflects a shift toward higher-value goods among traders.Polished imports grew 6% for the year to date, while exports to mainland Chinaclimbed 12% to $2.58 billionHo...Read More
Trade log for nickel sulfate in China including transactions, bids and offers reported to Fastmarkets MB.Unless otherwise stated, all prices are yuan per tonne on an ex-works basis.Fastmarkets MB prices Click here for Fastmarkets MB's price assessment for nickel sulfate, Ni 21% min 22.5% max, China ex-works, yuan/tonne. The exchange rate according to...Read More
Trade log for nickel sulfate in China including transactions, bids and offers reported to Fastmarkets MB.Unless otherwise stated, all prices are yuan per tonne on an ex-works basis.Fastmarkets MB prices Click here for Fastmarkets MB's price assessment for nickel sulfate, Ni 21% min 22.5% max, China ex-works, yuan/tonne. The exchange rate according to Oanda.com on Tuesday October 30 was 25,200...Read More
Good morning from Fastmarkets MB's offices in Asia as we bring you the latest news and pricing stories on Thursday November 22.Base metals prices on the Shanghai Futures Exchange were broadly down during Asian morning trading on Thursday despite the recent softness in the dollar; copper and aluminium were little changed with a slight upward bias, while the rest were lower across the board. Check F...Read More
Xinfa Group, one of China's top aluminium smelters, will not have to cut metal production in its home city of Liaocheng this winter and will only have to reduce alumina output by 10 percent for two months, according to city government documents.The measures are much more lenient than during the 2017/18 winter, when China imposed a 30 percent output curb on aluminium and alumina production in 28 no...Read More
Flat steel sales volumes from distributors in Brazil increased slightly year-on-year in October 2018, amid stable domestic prices, local flat steel association Inda has said.Sales amounted to 268,500 tonnes in the month, up from 267,000 tonnes in October 2017, according to figures released on Thursday November 22."There is a general sentiment among distributors that the market will improve at some...Read More
This translated to full diluted earnings per share of €0.022 per share, down from €0.023/share a year ago.Profits after tax for the January-September period almost doubled to €27.6 million, up from €14.5 million a year ago, with fully diluted earnings for the period at €0.20/share, up from €0.12/share a year ago.The copper miner reported quarterly revenues of €42...Read More
(Kitco News) - Even though U.S. retail sales will not beat last year’s performance – the strongest in more than a decade – the 2018 holiday season will still be a “cheerful” one, IHS Markit said in its outlook.Retail sales during the winter holidays will grow 4.4% over last year, which saw a 5.7% increase — the best results since 2005, said IHS Markit associate...Read More
(Kitco News) - Gold managed to hold on to most of its previous gains, with markets largely ignoring the European Central Bank’s (ECB) meeting minutes and instead focusing on Italy’s decision to resist EU’s budget pressure.The December Comex gold futures were last trading at $1,228.30 an ounce, up 0.02% on the day, keeping firmly above the $1,220 level.With the U.S. financial mark...Read More
Steel billet prices in Turkey have softened further this week under the influence of the negative sentiment created by falling prices for scrap and China-origin steel, sources said on Thursday November 22.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for billet imports into Turkey was $460-465 per tonne cfr on Thursday, down from last week's $475-480 per tonne.The suppliers in the CIS region have reduced t...Read More
PolarX builds bigger, richer Zackly pictureSPONSOREDpolar x limitedThose that rocked up were also treated to a rundown by some Brazilian guys on the assets OZ picked up with the $418 million acquisition of Avanco in March, and an update on the pathway to a development decision on the $730-800 million West Musgrave joint venture.Those that attended have been reporting back that nothing material was...Read More
Rebar and wire rod prices in Turkey's domestic market fell on Thursday November 22, on a stronger lira and poor demand, sources told Fastmarkets.The Fastmarkets weekly price assessment for domestic rebar in Turkey was TRY3,080-3,220 ($576-602) per tonne ex-works, down from TRY3,250-3,400 per tonne.Rebar in the Izmir and Karab? 1/4 k regions was TRY3,100-3,200 per tonne, while in the Istanbul...Read More
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan signed an agreement with a state-owned Turkish company on Thursday allowing it to mine for gold and other minerals in Sudan’s Red Sea state, a source at the Sudanese petroleum ministry said.The agreement between Sudan’s Geological Authority, which falls under the petroleum ministry, and Turkey’s Mineral Research and Exploration General Directorate (MTA)...Read More
Kyzyl ramp-up signals new growth path at buoyant PolymetalSPONSOREDpolymetal internationalBased on a US$3 per pound copper price and $1,300/oz gold, the study calculated an after-tax net present value, at an 8% discount rate, of US$2 billion (C$2.6 billion) and an internal rate of return of 18.6%."Long-term copper fundamentals are strong, and the global project pipeline is at multi-decade lows. We...Read More
Three-month base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange continued to give mixed performances this morning, Thursday November 22. Zinc and lead showed weakness with prices down by 0.4% and 0.3% respectively, while tin prices were up by 0.3%. The rest were little changed, with the three-month copper price up by 0.1% at $6,242 per tonne.Volume has been below average with 4,562 lots traded as at 7...Read More
CIS export billet prices continued to weaken on Thursday November 22 due to spreading negative sentiment in the market caused by falling finished long steel prices, uncertainty in the import scrap segment in Turkey as well as slumping billet prices in the Southeast Asia market. Fastmarkets' daily CIS export billet index was calculated at $453 per tonne fob Black Sea on Thursday November 22, d...Read More
GENEVA (Reuters) - Countries belonging to the G20 group of the world’s biggest economies applied 40 new trade restrictive measures between mid-May and mid-October, covering around $481 billion of trade, the World Trade Organization said on Thursday.The new restrictions covered six times more trade than in the previous period and were the largest since the WTO started monitoring G20 trade in...Read More