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Spot demand for tin diminished further in the week to Tuesday December 3, with the focus now on annual contracts and backwardation returning to the London Metal Exchange price for the metal.The 99.9% European tin premium holds at its recent lower levelThanksgiving holiday cuts into trade in the United StatesAsian premiums not buoyed by earlier production cuts.European premiums flat on ubdued deman...Read More

The three-month zinc price on the London Metal Exchange was higher at the close of trading on Wednesday December 4, with upward movement in the price of the galvanizing metal supported by strong turnover, while nickel futures took a divergent path over the afternoon in a 1.6% sell-off.Zinc's underlying price on the LME closed at $2,245 per tonne in the afternoon, gaining just under 2% from Tuesday...Read More

A summary of London Metal Exchange warrant premiums from across the globe for the week to Wednesday December 4.Please click...Read More

Key data from Fastmarkets' pricing session in Europe on Wednesday December 4.Key drivers  The scrap markets were down in the past week, with supply offer prices dropping against slowing demand in the run-up to year-end holidays. Metals producers typically run down their feedstocks in December, a time usually set aside for book-squaring, banking profits and settling accounts. The alloy market...Read More

An overview of the minor metals markets and their latest price moves.Read More

Key data from Fastmarkets' pricing session in Europe on Wednesday December 4.Key drivers  The scrap markets were down in the past week, with supply offer prices dropping against slowing demand in the run-up to year-end holidays. Metals producers typically run down their feedstocks in December, a time usually set aside for book-squaring, banking profits and settling accounts. The alloy market...Read More

The Turkish steel producers have continued their purchases of deep-sea market scrap for January shipments, while prices became even more firm, sources said on Wednesday December 4.A steel producer in the Iskenderun region booked a Baltic Sea cargo, comprising 17,000 tonnes of HMS 1&2 (95:5) at $290 per tonne cfr.Another steel mill in the Marmara region booked a European cargo, comprising 20,000 to...Read More

Key data from Fastmarkets' pricing session in Europe on Wednesday December 4.Key drivers  The scrap markets were down in the past week, with supply offer prices dropping against slowing demand in the run-up to year-end holidays. Metals producers typically run down their feedstocks in December, a time usually set aside for book-squaring, banking profits and settling accounts. The alloy market...Read More

Market participants have been surprised by the continued rise inAsian ferrous scrap prices, especially in the face of weak downstream demand. "Some people have been caught short and now have to purchase at higher prices after selling their cargoes previously," a trader in Vietnam told Fastmarkets on Wednesday December 4.Prices in Asia have been on an upward trend from early October, boosted by lim...Read More

Non-haven markets are generally under pressure after United States President Donald Trump said he was prepared to wait until after the 2020 US presidential election for a trade deal with China.This has dented sentiment, sending gold prices and the yen higher, while US treasury yields have weakened. Asian equities are weaker, led by a 1.6% fall in the Australia's ASX 200The yuan has weakened to 7.0...Read More

Glencore has signed a six-year deal to supply cobalt hydroxide to South Korea-based electric vehicle (EV) battery maker SK Innovation, the Swiss miner-trader announced on Wednesday December 4.SK Innovation will purchase up to 30,000 tonnes of cobalt contained in hydroxide between 2020 and 2025. "This newly established partnership demonstrates the continuation of Glencore's cobalt hydroxide marketi...Read More

As 2019 draws to a close, Fastmarkets examines the underlying factors driving the spread between US hot-rolled coil and steel reinforcing bar prices throughout the year.Fastmarkets' price assessment for steel reinforcing bar (rebar), fob mill US averaged $33.12 per hundredweight at the midpoint in January-November, while the steel hot-rolled coil index, fob mill US averaged $29.77 per cwt, creatin...Read More

European steelmakers have announced price rises for coil products across the region in the past week, and transaction prices have moved up in the south, sources told Fastmarkets on Wednesday December 4.Northern European buyers have not settled deals at higher prices yet, because they have been processing the new offer levels. But domestic prices in the region were expected to pick up soon, accordi...Read More

Demand for flat steel products in Turkey was strong in November because of purchases for re-stocking, market participants told Fastmarkets on Wednesday, December 4.Local producers have now filled their order books until late February, sources added, and have started to accept orders for early-March production.Local demand was weak in Turkey in October because of decreasing prices, but improved in...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets MB stories you might have missed on Wednesday December 4 that are worth another look.French special steelmaker Ascoval, part of the British Steel group, is to supply 140,000 tonnes per year of semi-finished products, rectangular blooms, to rail manufacturing specialist BSFR (British Steel France Rail) to be processed into rails for the SNCF R?(C)seau national train networ...Read More

As 2019 draws to a close, Fastmarkets examines the underlying factors driving the spread between US hot-rolled coil and steel reinforcing bar prices throughout the year.Fastmarkets' price assessment for steel reinforcing bar (rebar), fob mill US averaged $33.12 per hundredweight at the midpoint in January-November, while the steel hot-rolled coil index, fob mill US averaged $29.77 per cwt, creatin...Read More

The price of steel rebar in the Southern Europe domestic market was unchanged this week with buyers and sellers disagreeing on the direction the market should take, sources told Fastmarkets on Wednesday November 4.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for steel reinforcing bar (rebar), domestic, delivered Southern Europe, was ?,?465-480 ($515-532) per tonne on Wednesday, unchanged week-on-week.Simi...Read More

Brazilian iron ore exports totaled 27.25 million tonnes in November 2019, a 19.8% year-on-year decrease from 33.97 million tonnes, data from the country's ministry of economy showed on Monday December 2.Shipment volumes also fell by 18.3% in comparison with 33.35 million tonnes during October 2019, according to the ministry.Figures from October were revised upward after the foreign trade secretari...Read More