Ferrous scrap prices in Mexico stayed on an uptrend in the week ended October 16, with increases on all grades and in all regions, on high demand for the steelmaking raw material.Sources reported price increases of 100-300 pesos ($5-14) per tonne for both prime and obsolete scrap between late last week and early this week.In addition, some companies that had been quiet in Mexico's central Baj?-o r...Read More
Turkish steel mills have steered clear of the deep-sea scrap market for a second day this week, with no new bookings heard on Tuesday October 20.The day before, the market reported two bookings which had came to light from the previous week, at slightly higher prices, but no further cargoes were booked on Monday.One market participant was hopeful that prices would inch higher following a...Read More
Vale's iron ore production increased both year on year and quarter on quarter in the three months to September as a result of the resumption of previously halted operations in several mining sites, it said late on Monday October 19.The Brazilian mining major produced 88.68 million tonnes of iron ore in the third quarter, up by 2.3% from the 86.70 million tonnes produced a year earlier, and 31.2% h...Read More
Novolipietsk Steel (NLMK) - the largest steel producer in Russia - will start the rolling mill modernization at its Belgian subsidiary NLMK Clabecq, the company said on Tuesday October 20.A ?,?30 million ($35 million) plate rolling mill upgrade will include the installation of a new descaling system with two new descalers and the modernization of the four-stand finishing mill, NLMK said.Despite th...Read More
Vale's iron ore production increased both year on year and quarter on quarter in the three months to September as a result of the resumption of previously halted operations in several mining sites, it said late on Monday October 19.The Brazilian mining major produced 88.68 million tonnes of iron ore in the third quarter, up by 2.3% from the 86.70 million tonnes produced a year earlier, and 31.2% h...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Friday October 16 that are worth another look.Brazilian steelmaker Companhia Sider??rgica Nacional (CSN) is set to reach full capacity by the end of November, with a planned restart for the idled blast furnace (BF) in the latter half...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Tuesday October 20 that are worth another look....Read More
Hot-rolled coil prices in the United States have crossed the $33.50-per-hundredweight ($670-per-short-ton) threshold, and most signs indicate that they will continue to march upward, market participants said.Fastmarkets' daily steel hot-rolled coil index, fob mill US was calculated $33.54 per cwt ($670.80 per ton) on Tuesday October 20, up by 0.4% from $33.39 per cwt on Monday October 19 and...Read More
A summary of base metals premiums from across the globe for the week to Tuesday October 20.Please click...Read More
Ferrous scrap prices in Mexico stayed on an uptrend in the week ended October 16, with increases on all grades and in all regions, on high demand for the steelmaking raw material.Sources reported price increases of 100-300 pesos ($5-14) per tonne for both prime and obsolete scrap between late last week and early this week.In addition, some companies that had been quiet in Mexico's central Baj?-o r...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Tuesday October 20 that are worth another look....Read More
A strengthening of the yuan against the dollar is resulting in higher export offers for Chinese minor metals and ferro-alloys while also making buyers in China more willing to pay higher for imports.Following a strong economic recovery in China after the turmoil caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the Chinese currency hit a 17-month high against the dollar on Friday October 9 - the first working day...Read More
London Metal Exchange three-month base metals prices except aluminium were trading up at the close on Tuesday October 20, buoyed by an upswing in United States equities markets. US stock markets opened higher today, bolstered by the looming deadline for a regional stimulus package to fight the fallout of Covid-19. So while talks in the US senate went down to the wire, LME buyers and sellers had th...Read More
Seaborne premium hard coking coal prices plummeted on Tuesday October 20 after market participants lowered their estimates and said the spot market was declining. Fastmarkets indices Premium hard coking coal, fob DBCT: $113.98 per tonne, down $3.90 per tonne Premium hard coking coal, cfr Jingtang: $126.78 per tonne, down $3.51 per tonne Hard coking coal, fob DBCT: $105.02 per to...Read More
Fastmarkets is proposing to amend the settlement criteria for its MB-AL-0001 aluminium P1020A (MJP) quarterly premium, cif Japan, $ per tonne.This year, and in part due to the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic, market dynamics have shifted, and fewer participants engaged in the MJP quarterly contractual discussions, with some choosing not to take part at all.Fastmarkets believes that there may...Read More
Weak demand from the aerospace sector will maintain the pressure on the tantalum sector in the short term, Dharam Kotecha, director at minerals trader Halcyon, said during a virtual conference hosted by the Tantalum-Niobium International Study Centre last week."In terms of short-term demand, in what was a buoyant aerospace industry, [Covid-19] will create a big hole when the international travel i...Read More
London Metal Exchange three-month base metals prices except aluminium were trading up at the close on Tuesday October 20, buoyed by an upswing in United States equities markets. US stock markets opened higher today, bolstered by the looming deadline for a regional stimulus package to fight the fallout of Covid-19. So while talks in the US senate went down to the wire, LME buyers and sellers had th...Read More
Marcus Garvey is the new head of metals and bulks commodity strategy at Macquarie, the Australian bank said on Monday October 19. Garvey replaces Tom Price, who had been in...Read More
The three-month aluminium price on the London Metal Exchange was subdued during morning trading on Tuesday October 20 following a fresh inflow of 17,625 tonnes and continued re-warranting in Port Klang, while nickel futures breached nearby resistance amid steady buying. The aluminium price was recently trading at $1,841 per tonne on Tuesday morning, falling from Monday's closing price of $1,853.50...Read More
China has announced its 13th batch of scrap metal import quotas for 2020, allowing considerably smaller volumes of copper and aluminium scrap to enter the country than in its previous round of quotas.The latest batch permits 5,980 tonnes of copper scrap to be imported into China, the China Solid Waste & Chemicals Management Bureau said on Monday October 19. This brings the total amount of copper s...Read More