Domestic and imported steel beam prices rose in the United States on Thursday July 29 after remaining flat the prior month.Fastmarkets' monthly assessment for steel beams 8- x 8-in, fob mill US rose to $63 per hundredweight ($1,260 per short ton) on July 29, up by 5% from $60 per per cwt in May and June and up by 20% from $52.50 per cwt on April 29.Fastmarkets' assessment for steel beams medium se...Read More
Fastmarkets is launching a one-month consultation on several proposed updates to the wording of its assessment methodology. The proposed wording refinements do not materially alter the way Fastmarkets Metals & Mining assesses prices but are instead intended to describe the process more clearly to increase market participants' understanding of how editorial judgment is applied. The changes are not...Read More
Transaction prices for domestic wire rod in Poland increased in the week to Friday July 30 following higher offers announced by mills the previous week, sources told Fastmarkets.Continuous short supply of the material supported the rising deal prices. Transactions for the domestic material were heard at 4,200-4,250 zloty ($1,088-1,101) per tonne delivered. This was in line with the offer price mil...Read More
Negotiations in the United States' pig iron import market became more active during the week ended Friday July 30, although buyers have insisted on much lower prices than suppliers offered.Fastmarkets' price assessment for pig iron, import, cfr Gulf of Mexico, US, was at $620-635 per tonne on Friday, down by 0.79% from $625-640 per tonne a week...Read More
An overview of the new energy materials markets and their price moves from the past week.Susan Zou, Yingchi Yang and...Read More
Slab export prices from Brazil dropped sharply, with new offers and bids affected by low-priced material from Russia and Ukraine.Fastmarkets' weekly assessment for steel slab, export, fob main port Brazil was $920-930 per tonne on Friday July 30, down from $975-985 per tonne the previous weekMost deals for September shipment to the United States market were closed around...Read More
A surge in raw material prices, principally for direct-reduced iron (DRI), over the week ended Friday July 30 has led to Indian secondary billet prices rising by about 800 rupees ($11) per tonne.Fastmarkets assessed the price of steel billet, domestic, ex-works India, at 43,000-43,200 rupees ($579-582) per tonne on Friday, up by 800 rupees per tonne from last week's assessment at 42,200-42,400 rup...Read More
Precious metals mining company Sibanye-Stillwater is going to buy the Sandouville nickel hydrometallurgical processing facility from French mining group Eramet SA in a move to build on its strategy to diversify into the battery metals supply chain, the company said.The current Sandouville facilities, located in Normandy, France, include a hydrometallurgical nickel refinery with a capacity of 12,00...Read More
An overview of the new energy materials markets and their price moves from the past week.Susan Zou, Yingchi Yang and...Read More
Steel scrap prices started to move downward in major international markets such as Turkey and the US East Coast export sector over the week ended Friday July 30, amid plentiful supply of scrap in some areas but tepid buying interest.Turkey import buy prices drop amid poor long steel salesRising scrap availability on US East Coast depresses export pricesVietnam remains out of import scrap market am...Read More
The light iron scrap market in the UK was unchanged on Friday July 30, but a change in direction was likely due to a recent drop on the export markets, sources have told Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for steel scrap 5C, loose old light, domestic, delivered inter-merchant, UK, was ?180-195 ($251-272) per tonne on Friday, unchanged at a multi-year high.Market participants expecte...Read More
The prices of shredded steel scrap imports into Pakistan and India weakened on Friday July 30 following a drop in Turkish scrap prices, sources told Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets calculated its weekly steel scrap, shredded, index, import, cfr Port Qasim, Pakistan at $544.77 per tonne on Friday, down from $546.46 per tonne a week earlier.Deals were reported at $543-545 per tonne this week, down from deal...Read More
Aluminium 6063 billet premiums climbed in Europe and Brazil on Friday July 30, while premiums in the United States and Asia were steady. Supply contract negotiations for 2022 have started, but high freight rates and a Russian export tax are likely to complicate talks.EuropeFastmarkets assessed the aluminium 6063 extrusion billet premium, ddp North Germany (Ruhr region) at $1,170-1,220 per tonne on...Read More
Spurred on by supply tightness and steady demand, the aluminium three-month price on the London Metal Exchange rose to a new 2021 high of $2,642 per tonne on July 30, while tin and nickel's three-month price, also supported by strained fundamentals, rose over 10% in July.Aluminium's price was up 5.3% on Friday from a closing price of $2,507.50 per tonne on July 1 and at its highest since April 201...Read More
Sudbury, a Vale SA mine in Canada where workers have been striking since June 1, has had "a very large impact" on the Brazilian miner's operations, the company's chief executive officer told analysts on July 29."Even if we quickly resolve the strike, we will still have many weeks until we normalize," CEO Eduardo De Salles Bartolomeo said, without directly answering a question on how long the strik...Read More
An overview of the new energy materials markets and their price moves from the past week.Susan Zou, Yingchi Yang and...Read More
Fastmarkets is launching a one-month consultation on several proposed updates to the wording of its assessment methodology. The proposed wording refinements do not materially alter the way Fastmarkets Metals & Mining assesses prices but are instead intended to describe the process more clearly to increase market participants' understanding of how editorial judgment is applied. The changes are not...Read More
Key data from Fastmarkets' Friday July 30 pricing sessions in China, Europe and the United States.China Chinese ferro-silicon prices went up slightly following the news that a major producer in Inner Mongolia will issue a production cut due to the electricity controls in summer. In addition, Ningxia will also start a series of electricity controls to limit production, and...Read More
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Fastmarkets' copper concentrates index jumped this week with both smelters and traders locking higher numbers for spot cargoes.Fastmarkets' assessment of the copper concentrates treatment charge/ refining charge index cif Asia Pacific has risen to its highest level since late April 2020, at $53.2 per tonne on July 30.Smelters bought spot cargoes in the mid-to-high...Read More