Uncertainty about steel product prices in the United Arab Emirates continued even after the country's biggest producer, Emirates Steel, announced a new rebar price on October 24, sources told Fastmarkets on Tuesday October 26.Emirates Steel has been offering rebar at 2,490 dirhams ($678) per tonne ex-works since October 24, rising from the previous 2,406 dirhams per tonne ex-works.But the price in...Read More

A summary of the operational results for Russia's largest steelmaker, Novolipetsk Steel (NLMK), which also has assets in Europe and the United States, for the third quarter (July-September) of 2021In brief?EUR? In the third quarter, NLMK's consolidated sales decreased by 4% compared with the second quarter, to 4.1 million tonnes amid steel output reductions at its Russian flat steel division.?EUR?...Read More

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - An Indian court on Tuesday temporarily restrained Zee Entertainment Enterprises' top investor Invesco from calling a shareholder meeting, in a win for the TV network that sent its shares higher.U.S. investment firm Invesco, which owns nearly 18% of Zee via two funds, wanted an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) of shareholders in a bid to oust the Indian company's CEO Punit...Read More

LONDON, Oct 26 (Reuters) - British retailers reported a stronger-than-expected sales rise in October after a September slowdown but global supply chain problems reduced their stocks to the lowest level since records began in 1985, the Confederation of British Industry said.The CBI's monthly distributive trade survey showed the headline sales balance for retailers picked up to +30 in October from +...Read More

Sentiment in China's import market for steel billet warmed on Tuesday October 26 following a more solid performance by ferrous futures markets and reports of better power supply in the east of the country.Physical rebar and billet prices remained flat in key Chinese local markets on Tuesday, while the most-traded January rebar futures contract on the Shanghai Futures Exchange (SHFE) closed at 4,91...Read More

FRANKFURT, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Euro zone banks tightened access to mortgages in the three months to September and expect to continue doing so in the final quarter of the year, a European Central Bank survey showed on Tuesday.ECB policymakers are set to take stock of the economic situation at a meeting on Thursday, paving the way for a decision in December on the future of the central bank's bond-bu...Read More

Thanksgiving is a time to appreciate the food on our tables, but that probably isn’t stopping a lot of people from grumbling about how expensive the turkey and all the fixings have become.According to Statistics Canada, food prices are up 2.5% over the past year, but that may be underestimating the impact of inflation. New research from Dalhousie University’s Agri-Food Analytics Lab, q...Read More

LONDON, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Full-time earnings in Britain rose by the most since 2008 in April, up by 4.3% from a year earlier, although the government's furlough scheme and other distortions related to COVID-19 probably pushed up growth, official data showed on Tuesday.The Office for National Statistics' annual earnings survey is normally the gold standard of British labour market data, covering m...Read More

BERLIN (Reuters) - The German government has cut its economic growth forecast for this year to 2.6%, but lifted its estimate for next year to 4.1% as supply problems are delaying the recovery in Europe's largest economy, two sources familiar with the decision said on Tuesday.The revised government forecast for gross domestic product growth compares with an April prediction for the economy to grow...Read More

With the S&P 500 back at itsall-time highs, gold stopped lagging behind. However, how long can thisunsustainable growth last?TheFOMO Rally While the S&P500 has demonstrated a resounding ability to shake off bad news, anepic divergence has developed between positioning and economic expectations.And while ‘fear of missing out’ (FOMO) keeps sentiment near the high-end of itsrange,...Read More

SINGAPORE/LISBON (Reuters) -Energias de Portugal is in advanced talks to buy a majority stake in Sunseap Group in a deal that will value the Southeast Asian renewables company at around S$1 billion ($742 million) and involve substantial investments in the business, three sources with knowledge of the matter said on Tuesday.EDP Renovaveis (EDPR), 75% owned by EDP, Portugal's biggest utility, is in...Read More

A decision by the European Union on the future of the bloc's scrap metal export trade, which is worth billions of euros per year, could come as early as December this year, the Bureau of International Recycling (BIR) conference in Brussels heard on Tuesday October 26.The recycling industry is facing tremendous challenges, panelists said. The EU has proposed restrictions on the export of "waste" ma...Read More

A summary of the operational results for Russia's largest steelmaker, Novolipetsk Steel (NLMK), which also has assets in Europe and the United States, for the third quarter (July-September) of 2021In brief?EUR? In the third quarter, NLMK's consolidated sales decreased by 4% compared with the second quarter, to 4.1 million tonnes amid steel output reductions at its Russian flat steel division.?EUR?...Read More

Guidance for China to achieve its carbon emissions peak by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060 was jointly released by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Sunday October 24.The guidance specifies that by the year 2025, China's energy consumption per unit of gross domestic product will be reduced by 13.5% from 2020 levels, carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Tuesday October 26 that are worth another look.A decision by the European Union on the future of the bloc's scrap metal export trade, which is worth billions of euros per year, could come as early as December this year, the Bureau...Read More

Mexican ferrous scrap prices declined again over the past week, with lower prices becoming more widespread among buyers in the country's two main markets, sources told Fastmarkets.But market participants believe prices are close to reaching a bottom, with some buyers having difficulty securing deals at lower prices."We continued to see low prices, but it seems that prices are reaching a minim...Read More

A decision by the European Union on the future of the bloc's scrap metal export trade, which is worth billions of euros per year, could come as early as December this year, the Bureau of International Recycling (BIR) conference in Brussels heard on Tuesday October 26.The recycling industry is facing tremendous challenges, panelists said. The EU has proposed restrictions on the export of "waste" ma...Read More

The aluminium industry could reduce the carbon intensity of its metal production to under one tonne by 2050 if it works towards limiting the rise in the mean global temperature to 1.5 ?C above pre-industrial levels, the International Aluminium Institute (IAI) said.In this 1.5 ?C scenario, carbon intensity would fall from an average of 16.1 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) per tonne of aluminium curr...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Tuesday October 26 that are worth another look.A decision by the European Union on the future of the bloc's scrap metal export trade, which is worth billions of euros per year, could come as early as December this year, the Bureau...Read More

Base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange were down across the board at the 5pm close of trading on Tuesday October 26.The three-month aluminium price lost more ground, closing 1.6% lower, at $2,829 per tonne.Aluminium was the most-traded metal on LMESelect throughout the day, with 23,151 lots traded by 5:30pm, compared with just 9,243 lots of copper."In line with our expectations, discussed...Read More