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Tin: Expect a rebound post-summer

21 August 2018 / Staff reporter

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Zinc: The weakest link

21 August 2018 / Staff reporter

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Base metals investment analysis: Specs start to cover some shorts

21 August 2018 / Staff reporter

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GLOBAL FERRO-SILICON WRAP: Chinese prices start to slip on waning demand; European prices firm around psychological support level

August 21, 2018 / Chris Kavanagh

Chinese ferro-silicon prices slipped last week on waning demand while the European market held despite a lack of consumption. ...Read More

Demand Indicators: August 21 2018

21 August 2018 / Staff reporter

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Tech Talk for Tuesday August 21st 2018

21/08/2018 / Staff reporter

U.S. equity index futures were higher this morning. S&P 500 futures were up 4 points in pre-opening trade. NVIDIA gained $1.65 to $249.49 after the company announced launch of a new processor for gaming. Toll Brothers added $3.26 to $37.99 after reporting higher than consensus fiscal third quarter sales and earnings. Kohl's dropped $1.85 to $77.00 despite reporting higher than consensus second...Read More

EUROPEAN MORNING BRIEF 21/08: Mn ore prices jump; currency movements weigh on chrome exports to China; Chinese vanadium export prices slide

August 21, 2018 / Anna Xu

Good morning from Metal Bulletin's offices in Asia as we bring you the latest news and pricing stories on Tuesday August 21.Base metals prices on the Shanghai Futures Exchange were broadly up during morning trading on Tuesday, with a retreat in the dollar continuing to provide support to the complex. Check Metal Bulletin's live futures report here. Sellers of UG2 chrome ore have lowered their offe...Read More

GLOBAL MANGANESE WRAP: Ore prices jump amid silico-manganese futures spike

August 21, 2018 / Janie Davies

Manganese ore prices are rebounding on the back of rising silico-manganese futures prices in China....Read More

Indian scrap imports to keep rising despite launch of local shredding operations

August 21, 2018 / Alona Yunda

India's first legal car-shredding operations will begin to generate shredded steel scrap next year but this additional material will not prevent a rise in the volume of the country's scrap imports after 2019, according to Metal Bulletin Research (MBR).Cero Recycling is a joint venture between Mahindra Intertrade and export regulator MSTC. It intends to generate 1 million tonnes per year of sh...Read More

Steelmaking Raw Materials Trade Log, August 21, 2018

August 21, 2018 / Staff reporter

The latest bids, offers and deals in the global markets for iron ore, pig iron, direct-reduced iron and other steelmaking raw materials. ...Read More

IRON ORE DAILY: Prices dip amid more environmental restrictions in China

August 21, 2018 / July Zhang

Physical iron ore was trading at lower prices on Tuesday August 21 with more restrictions affecting mills in China....Read More

BHP sees sustained demand for high-grade iron ore; reports 20% jump in earnings

August 21, 2018 / Alex Theo

BHP expects quality differentiation to remain an important element in the iron ore price formation, even as it sees prices coming under pressure in the short-term amid supply growth and ample inventories at Chinese ports, the miner said on Tuesday August 21....Read More

China AM: Steel futures down despite talk of early winter production cuts

August 21, 2018 / Alex Theo

China's steel futures fell in the morning trading of Tuesday August 21, despite talk of earlier-than-usual winter steel production cuts....Read More

PEOPLE MOVES: Former LME exec Oliver Nugent to join Citibank from ING - sources

August 21, 2018 / Hassan Butt

Oliver Nugent, a former executive of the London Metal Exchange, will leave his role as commodities strategist at ING Group to join the commodities research division of Citibank, sources close to the matter told Metal Bulletin....Read More

MMG signs zinc conc sales agreement with Minmetals North-Europe

August 21, 2018 / Shivani Singh

MMG Dugald River, a subsidiary of MMG Ltd, has entered into an agreement to sell around 40,000 dry metric tonnes of zinc concentrate per annum to China Minmetals Corp (CMC) subsidiary Minmetals North-Europe from 2019 to 2020.The sales agreement is expected to provide Chinese end-users and smelters with "efficient access" to zinc concentrate, Australian-Chinese miner MMG said on Monday August 20."C...Read More

METALS MORNING VIEW 21/08: Rebound continues across the metals

August 21, 2018 / William Adams

The base metals were up across the board by an average of 0.8% basis three-month prices on the London Metal Exchange on the morning of Tuesday August 21. This extends the rebounds that got underway on Thursday August 16 - the question is whether this is another dead-cat bounce or the start of a more meaningful recovery after a long drawn out downtrend that for most metals has dominated since...Read More

Outokumpu's September alloy surcharges fall on weaker nickel prices

August 21, 2018 / Ross Yeo

Finnish stainless steelmaker Outokumpu has lowered its alloy surcharge for September deliveries of grade-304 cold-rolled (CR) stainless steel sheets by ?,?61 ($70) per tonne....Read More

China AM: Steel futures down despite talk of early winter production cuts

August 21, 2018 / Alex Theo

China's steel futures fell in the morning trading of Tuesday August 21, despite talk of earlier-than-usual winter steel production cuts....Read More

IRON ORE DAILY: Prices dip amid more environmental restrictions in China

August 21, 2018 / July Zhang

Physical iron ore was trading at lower prices on Tuesday August 21 with more restrictions affecting mills in China....Read More

China AM: Steel futures down despite talk of early winter production cuts

August 21, 2018 / Alex Theo

China's steel futures fell in the morning trading of Tuesday August 21, despite talk of earlier-than-usual winter steel production cuts....Read More

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