The seaborne premium hard coking coal price in the cfr market jumped on Monday May 31, with a deal heard done at $275 per tonne cfr China, sources told Fastmarkets. Fastmarkets indicesPremium hard coking coal, fob DBCT: $153.89 per tonne, up $1.09 per tonnePremium hard coking coal, cfr Jingtang: $284.64 per tonne, up $21.19 per tonneHard coking coal, fob DBCT: $129.95 per tonne, unchangedHard coki...Read More
The latest forecasts from Fastmarkets' team of analysts are ready to view.Recent weeks have largely been a repetition of the weeks leading up to our previous tracker in mid-April. A flurry of price increases have been announced, and largely obtained, by leading steelmakers in both Europe and the United States while buyers struggle to secure spot tonnages.Although steel output is rising in both reg...Read More
The latest forecasts from Fastmarkets' team of analysts are ready to view.This month's key North American steel forecast highlights:Unprecedentedly high flat steel product pricing in the United States was forecast to persist through the current quarter and well into the second half of 2021.Actual US hot-rolled coil prices in April slightly outpaced our forecasts, with Fastmarkets' US HRC index ave...Read More
The latest forecasts from Fastmarkets' team of analysts are ready to view.The upward momentum in United States' flat product prices is yet to show any signs of slowing, with US HRC prices hitting new record highs during April. Steel supply is forecast to remain short of demand due to no improvement in underlying supply and demand fundamentals, which is propelling US flat product prices higher...Read More
The latest forecasts from Fastmarkets' team of analysts is ready to view.Market conditions are clearly extraordinary when we find ourselves adjusting the axis on our pricing charts to display the new record-high prices each month.After reporting record price highs in Europe and the United States with regards to coated steel products, we find ourselves repeating the same line this month. In Europe,...Read More
The latest forecasts from Fastmarkets' team of analysts are ready to view.This month's key ferro-alloy forecast highlights:?EUR? Impressive advances in ore and alloy prices persisted in March, with most markets posting significant price gains. Strengthening demand from steelmakers along with supply shortages and depleted inventories in numerous markets, as well as freight and transportation...Read More
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Inner Mongolia, China's ferro-chrome production heartland, has imposed restrictions on its metallurgical sector in a move that has fueled the high-carbon ferro-chrome markets in China and Europe, and although this may ease off, the gains were unlikely to be lost while alloy ramp-ups continue, sources have told Fastmarkets.The decision to restrict energy consumption in Inner Mongolia since December...Read More
Despite excellent silver prices, silver-stock investing is a lot harder than it used to be. The major silver miners are pouring most of their growth capital into...by Adam Hamilton of Zeal LLCThe silver miners' stocks have mostly been consolidating high since last summer. While they've enjoyed some sharp rallies, those have been within that sideways-grind trend. That lack of overall upside pro...Read More
The latest forecasts from Fastmarkets' team of analysts is ready to view.Recent weeks have brought two key developments with regard to trade policy on stainless steel products that will be to the detriment of consumers.In China, the country's stainless steelmakers no longer enjoy a 13% export rebate as of May 1, reducing greatly their incentive to export and instead leading them to focus on supply...Read More
The latest forecasts from Fastmarkets' team of analysts is ready to view.Stainless steel prices and margins for stainless steel producers have risen notably over the past few months in both Europe and the United States, but there are now signs that the rally is petering out.A clear reason for the halt to rising prices comes from the near 20% drop in nickel prices seen in late February/early March,...Read More
The latest forecasts from Fastmarkets' team of analysts is ready to view.With nickel prices down by almost 20% over the space of around ten days during late February and early March, one might have been expecting us to be reporting sharply-lower prices of stainless steel, at least for the most common nickel-containing grades of stainless steel.This is not the case, at least in Europe and the Unite...Read More
The latest data for the global manganese ore market for the week ended May 31, 2021.Read More
Seaborne iron ore concentrate and pellet prices plunged further in the week ended Friday May 28 amid downward pressure from the bigger fines segment of the market.Fastmarkets iron ore indicesPellet premium over 65% Fe fines, cfr China: $61.00 per tonne, down $0.10 per tonne66% Fe concentrate, cfr Qingdao: $213.91 per tonne, down $30.21 per tonne65% Fe blast furnace pellet, cfr Qingdao: $279.82 per...Read More
China's nickel pig iron (NPI) prices widened downward last week amid a sliding stainless steel market, while the cif China discount for ferro-nickel decreased in the past month.Fastmarkets assessed the nickel pig iron, high-grade NPI content 10-15%, spot, ddp China at 1,125-1,150 yuan ($177-181) per nickel unit on Friday May 28, widening downward by 10 yuan (0.4%) per nickel unit from 1,135-1,150...Read More
RAPAPORT... Industry veteran Thomas Gelb has joined the Fancy Color Research Foundation (FCRF) as a member of its board of advisers.Gelb previously worked at the Gemological Institute of America (GIA) before leaving in 2008 to run Harry Winston's grading department, FCRF said Monday. For the past 12 years, Gelb has been an independent consultant, working with various companies, gem labs and trade...Read More
RAPAPORT... Revenue at Mumbai-based diamond and jewelry manufacturer Asian Star fell in the past fiscal year as Covid-19 lockdowns and restrictions hindered sales.Group revenue - including at subsidiaries - slid 16% to INR 25.62 billion ($353.1 million) for the year ending March 31, the company said earlier this month. Diamond sales plunged 66% to INR 21.44 billion ($295.5 million), while revenue...Read More
RAPAPORT... A new trade fair focusing on gemstones, jewelry, minerals and fossils will make its inaugural appearance in Colorado later this year.The HardRock Summit, which will feature over 400 exhibitors, educational seminars and keynote speakers, will run in Denver from September 16 to 21 at the Colorado Convention Center, its founders said last week. The event was created by Christoph Keilmann,...Read More
Seaborne iron ore prices rose on Monday May 31 amid support from increasing billet prices in China over the weekend and a potential easing of restrictions on steelmaking in Tangshan. Fastmarkets iron ore indices62% Fe fines, cfr Qingdao: $198.83 per tonne, up $8.32 per tonne62% Fe low-alumina fines, cfr Qingdao: $201.26 per tonne, up $8.59 per tonne58% Fe fines high-grade premium, cfr Qingdao: $17...Read More
RAPAPORT... Jeweler Mehul Choksi will likely be repatriated to India following his capture in Dominica, an island nation in the Caribbean, Reuters reported.Choksi's arrest comes two years after his nephew, Nirav Modi, was apprehended by the Metropolitan Police in the UK on behalf of the Indian authorities.The two fugitives, along with others, are alleged to have defrauded India's Punjab Natio...Read More