My research team and I continue to believe the Cannabis/Alternative sector is poised for a big trend in 2021 and 2022. Over the past few years, this sector has continued to trend lower after the hype of 2016~2018 – back when everyone was getting into the Cannabis industry as multiple US states authorized recreational and medical use. After the 2018 peak, followed by the early 201...Read More
Trade unions at Liberty's Czech-based Ostrava plant have announced a strike alert amid allegations that the plant's emissions allowances will be lent to another Liberty-owned steel mill, Fastmarkets heard.Earlier this week, the OS KOVO trade union warned of a readiness to strike at Liberty's Ostrava plant amid market concerns about the parent company's financial sustainability.Liberty Steel has be...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Wednesday April 14 that are worth another look.Steel producer Feralpi Group has improved the energy efficiency of its Brescia plant in Italy with help from energy company Enel X, reducing its carbon emissions to help meet its sustainability targets, the company said on Tuesday...Read More
Turkish steelmaker Tosyali Iron and Steel has ordered a second quantum electric-arc furnace (EAF) from Primetals Technologies, Primetals said.The quantum EAF will produce 2 million tonnes per year of liquid steel and can be operated with a mixture of scrap or varying composition of hot briquetted iron (HBI), Primetals said.Tosyali ordered its first quantum EAF in December 2020, together with a two...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Thursday April 15 that are worth another look.Trade unions at Liberty's Czech-based Ostrava plant have announced a strike alert amid allegations that the plant's emissions allowances will be lent to another Liberty-owned steel mill, Fastmarkets heard.Read More
Hot-rolled coil prices in the United States climbed to a record high for a second day in a row, and market participants reported no sign that the rally will come to an end in the near term.Fastmarkets' daily steel hot-rolled coil index, fob mill US was calculated at $68.73 per hundredweight ($1,374.60 per short ton) on Thursday April 15, up by 0.28% from $68.54 per cwt on Wednesday April 14 and by...Read More
Domestic prices for hot-rolled coil in the north of Europe kept increasing on Thursday April 15, driven by persistent shortages, while ArcelorMittal has increased its offer prices again after transaction prices reached its previous target, according to market sources.Fastmarkets calculated its daily steel hot-rolled coil index, domestic, exw Northern Europe, at ?,?913.33 ($1,092.97) per tonne on A...Read More
ArcelorMittal has again increased its official offer prices for all steel coil products across Europe, this time by ?,?50 ($60) per tonne, sources told Fastmarkets on Thursday April 15.This rise followed an offer increase of ?,?20 per tonne a week earlier. After that increase, offers for hot-rolled coil reached ?,?970 per tonne ex-works.Fastmarkets calculated its daily steel hot-rolled coil i...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Thursday April 15 that are worth another look.Trade unions at Liberty's Czech-based Ostrava plant have announced a strike alert amid allegations that the plant's emissions allowances will be lent to another Liberty-owned steel mill, Fastmarkets heard.Read More
Copper led the way in a price surge on the London Metal Exchange on Thursday April 15, rising at the close to its highest level since late February and spurring the rest of the complex, with aluminium setting a year-to-date high during trading.Copper's three-month price closed at $9,284 per tonne on Thursday at 5pm, the highest since February 25, when the metal reached its year-to-date high of $9,...Read More
London Metal Exchange aluminium continued to reach new multi-year highs while copper and lead were up by 1% on Thursday April 15 morning while nickel and tin fell from their Wednesday gains. LME aluminium's three-month price reached $2.356.50 per tonne during early trading, the most since October 2010, when the metal came to an intraday high of $2,358 per tonne. It was down slightly from that...Read More
Base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange have been edging higher in recent days, although this morning, Thursday April 15, they were looking mixed, while those on the Shanghai Futures Exchange were for the most part firmer. Concerns over China's policy on credit tightening in focus ahead of Friday's gross domestic product (GDP) dataAluminium sets fresh highs for the yearBase metalsLME three...Read More
Polished market seasonally slow. Uncertainty over impact of Mumbai lockdown as Maharashtra state tightens restrictions. GIA backlog expected to grow as Surat continues to produce diamonds. Concerns in colored-diamond market as GIA detects treatment in green stones. US retail upbeat as Mar. jewelry sales +106%, reports Mastercard. Signet 1Q forecast for revenue +88% to $1.6B. LVMH 1Q jewelry and wa...Read More
The diamond trade reduced its reliance on banks during Covid-19 and has adopted better compliance, governance and transparency standards in recent years.RAPAPORT... In the first issue of the Rapaport Research Report, which came out in January 2018, we highlighted the mistrust that existed between the diamond industry and its lenders. Diamantaires argued that the banks had an unjustified high-risk...Read More
Copper led the way in a price surge on the London Metal Exchange on Thursday April 15, rising at the close to its highest level since late February and spurring the rest of the complex, with aluminium setting a year-to-date high during trading.Copper's three-month price closed at $9,284 per tonne on Thursday at 5pm, the highest since February 25, when the metal reached its year-to-date high of $9,...Read More
Turkish steel mills have extended their silence in the deep-sea scrap market due to limited finished long steel demand, especially in the domestic market, participants told Fastmarkets on Thursday April 15.The most recent deep-sea trade was done at the end of the last week, when a steel mill in the Iskenderun region paid an average price of $436 per tonne cfr for 35,000 tonnes of HMS 1&2 (95:5) an...Read More
Areas of limited demand within the United States' copper scrap market kept most prices steady this week, according to sources.Fastmarkets' assessment of the copper scrap No1 copper discount, delivered to brass ingot makers rose to 27-30 cents per lb on Wednesday April 14 from 25-28 cents per lb at...Read More
Copper prices could reach $15,000 per tonne within five years, boosted by a sharp rise in demand for the metal, which has been described by Goldman Sachs analysts as the "new oil" for its use in green technologies, in a report released on Tuesday April 13.Goldman analysts, led by Nicholas Snowdon, have upgraded their 12-month price target for copper to $11,000 per tonne, predicting an average pric...Read More
London Metal Exchange aluminium continued to reach new multi-year highs while copper and lead were up by 1% on Thursday April 15 morning while nickel and tin fell from their Wednesday gains. LME aluminium's three-month price reached $2.356.50 per tonne during early trading, the most since October 2010, when the metal came to an intraday high of $2,358 per tonne. It was down slightly from that...Read More
Nornickel will increase its nickel production capacity from 65,000 tonnes currently to 75,000 tonnes by 2023 at its Nornickel Harjavalta refinery in Finland, the company said on April 14.Nornickel's Harjavalta refinery mainly produces nickel cathode, nickel briquette, salt and solution, along with cobalt as a by-product of using the sulfuric acid leaching approach with an over 98% extraction rate,...Read More