Pre-opening Comments for Wednesday January 2ndU.S. equity index futures were lower this morning. S&P 500 futures were down 42 points in pre-opening trade. Netflix dropped $5.69 to $267.66 after Sun Trust lowered its target price to $3.55 to $410. Aflac (AFL $) is expected to open lower after JP Morgan downgraded the stock to Neutral from Overweight. Amazon dropped $32.72 to $1469.25 afte...Read More
CME Group's busheling futures contract showed signs of acceptance in 2018, with 20,175 lots (403,500 gross tons) traded during the year.The contract, launched in September 2012, recorded trades of 1,200 lots in December 2018. Each lot is 20 tons.CME Group's busheling contract is underpinned by Fastmarkets AMM's No1 busheling US...Read More
With no end in sight to freefalling bulk export prices for ferrous scrap shipments from the United States to Asia and Turkey, prices also have fallen further at US East Coast docks, which have been starved for a sale for more than a month.A South Korean producer booked a cargo containing 45,000 tonnes of No1 heavy melting scrap (HMS) from a US West Coast exporter at $313 per tonne cfr on Friday De...Read More
Brazilian iron ore export volumes increased by 1.63% in 2018 compared with the previous year because of higher prices, Fastmarkets has learnt.The country shipped a total of 389.81 million tonnes of iron ore last year, compared with 383.54 million tonnes in 2017, according to figures released by the...Read More
The Turkish scrap import market was quiet on Wednesday January 2 with most market participants still on holiday, while demand for finished steel products was sluggish.After news broke of a Baltic Sea cargo being sold at $283 per tonne cfr for HMS 1&2 (80:20) on December 29, the daily scrap indices went down by around $6 per tonne...Read More
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The latest bids, offers and deals in the global markets for iron ore, pig iron, direct-reduced iron and other steelmaking raw materials. Latest transaction: iron oreIron oreVale, Global Ore, 170,000 tonnes of 62% Fe Brazilian Blend fines, traded at $74 per tonne cfr China, laycan January 21-30.Vale, tender,...Read More
Physical iron ore prices were largely rangebound on Wednesday January 2 amid mixed signals after the New Year long weekend in China.MB 62% Fe Iron Ore Index: $72.07 per tonne cfr Qingdao, down $0.66 per tonne. MB 62% Fe Pilbara Blend Fines Index: $71.90 per tonne cfr Qingdao, down $0.66 per tonne. MB 62% Fe Iron Ore Index-Low Alumina: $74 per tonne cfr Qingdao, down $0.12 per tonne. MB 58% Fe Prem...Read More
Seaborne coking coal prices fell on Wednesday January 2 after market participants returned to news of the suspension of operations at the Saraji coking coal mine in Queensland, Australia.The mine, operated by the BHP Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA), produced 1.1 million tonnes of coking coal in the July-September period. BMA produced a total of 7.7 million tonnes of the steelmaking raw material during t...Read More
Arbitrage for copper, aluminium, zinc and nickel imported into China on Wednesday January 2* Copper -$63.46 (-435.93 yuan) Aluminium -$365.78 (-2,512.79 yuan) Zinc $57.9 (397.76 yuan) Nickel $29.41 (202.04 yuan) *Fastmarkets calculates the physical arbitrage for import into China daily by using SHFE front-month and LME three-month...Read More
Base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange were mostly lower during morning trading on Wednesday January 2, pressured by a slump in Asian markets amid poor economic data while a modest recovery in US stock market futures indices did little to improve negative sentiment. Worst affected over the morning was the three-month zinc price, which fell just over 3% to trade below $2,400 per tonne and...Read More
An overview of the minor metals markets and the reasons for any price moves.Read More
Fastmarkets has corrected its titanium scrap unprocessed turnings (over 0.5% max 2.0% Sn) price, which was published incorrectly on January 2, 2019 due to a reporter error. The price was originally published incorrectly at $0.85-9 per lb cif major European ports and has been corrected to $0.85-0.9 per lb cif major European ports.Fastmarkets' price book and database have been updated to reflect thi...Read More
Fastmarkets has changed the names of its benchmark in-warehouse Rotterdam cobalt price assessments on January 2, 2019. The name 'standard-grade' has replaced the name 'low-grade'. The name 'alloy-grade' has replaced the name 'high-grade'. These changes follow a market consultation on Fastmarkets MB's international cobalt price specifications completed in April 2018. All historical data relating to...Read More
All Fastmarkets minor metals free market prices are unchanged on Wednesday January 2.Read More
The latest selenium transactions, bids, offers and assessments in Europe reported to Fastmarkets.Unless otherwise stated, all prices are per lb on an in-warehouse Rotterdam basis. Delivered prices are netted back.To view the latest price quotation, click here.To see...Read More
Key data from the Wednesday January 2 pricing session in Europe.Key drivers The market was extremely quiet during the Christmas and New Year break, with liquidity expected to return over the following seven days. No trades were reported for either the ferro-titanium or titanium scrap markets since the...Read More
Fastmarkets is hosting a free web seminar on Tuesday January 15 at 9:30am London time to discuss recent and upcoming trends and how we price the minor metals markets.The webinar will also explain the recent changes to some of our minor metals specifications. Register here to join the webinar. Date: Tuesday January 15, 2019 Time: 9:30am London time Join our pricing team while they discuss: - R...Read More
Newly public Finland gold explorer Firefox Gold (TSXV: FFOX) recently identified five new gold targets on its Jeesio gold project in Northern Finland's central Lapland greenstone belt after compiling samples in its geochemical database.The 2,751-sample Jeesio database contains 838 new till samples from the company's recently completed bottom of till sampling program, 768 historical Geological Surv...Read More
All Fastmarkets non-ferrous UK scrap and foundry ingot prices were unchanged on Wednesday January 2.NB: prices...Read More