Liberty Steel will sell its aerospace and special alloys steel business in Stocksbridge, United Kingdom, as part of a restructuring plan, the company said on Monday May 24.The Stocksbridge plant produces alloy and stainless steel grades for aerospace, oil and gas industries, and automotive and engineering segments. It has capacity to manufacture 500,000 tpy of merchant bar."A formal sale process f...Read More
Liberty Steel will sell its aerospace and special alloys steel business in Stocksbridge, United Kingdom, as part of a restructuring plan, the company said on Monday May 24.The Stocksbridge plant produces alloy and stainless steel grades for aerospace, oil and gas industries, and automotive and engineering segments. It has capacity to manufacture 500,000 tpy of merchant bar."A formal sale process f...Read More
The Chinese government held a meeting with the biggest iron ore, steel, copper and aluminium producers on Sunday May 23 to call for them to rein in commodity price hikes. Commodity leaders were told at the meeting to "proactively fulfill their social responsibilities" and make business decisions "for the benefit of the entire economy as a whole." "The key message is that we ought to obey our paren...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Monday May 24 that are worth another look.Demand for ferrous scrap imported to South Korea has shown a notable recovery in recent months amid healthy steel demand and rising steel output in the East Asian nation.Key Chinese commodities companies have been warned that they...Read More
Domestic prices for hot-rolled coil in the European Union increased in the week to Friday May 21, supported by continuing coil shortages and good demand.ArcelorMittal increased its coil offer for HRC to ?,?1,150 ($1,401) per tonne on Wednesday May 19, up by ?,?50 per tonne. Cold-rolled and hot-dipped galvanizing coil offers moved up to ?,?1,300 per tonne ex-works.Fastmarkets calculated its daily s...Read More
Some base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange bounced back on Monday May 24 aided by elements of short-covering after the sell-off towards the end of last week that took copper and aluminium prices down by over 5%. The three-month nickel price had the biggest boost on Monday, of 1.9% to $17,118 per tonne, from Friday's $16,791 per tonne price. On Friday, the price had declined by 6% over th...Read More
Ferro-vanadium and ferro-niobium prices both climbed by more than 4% in the week ended Friday May 21 due to tightening prompt supply in Europe at a time when spot market activity has started to increase. The availability of both the alloys in Europe has been tight since the second half of 2020 because China has been importing large volumes of material amid a better demand outlook than in Euro...Read More
Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Monday May 24 that are worth another look.Demand for ferrous scrap imported to South Korea has shown a notable recovery in recent months amid healthy steel demand and rising steel output in the East Asian nation.Key Chinese commodities companies have been warned that they...Read More
Some base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange bounced back on Monday May 24 aided by elements of short-covering after the sell-off towards the end of last week that took copper and aluminium prices down by over 5%. The three-month nickel price had the biggest boost on Monday, of 1.9% to $17,118 per tonne, from Friday's $16,791 per tonne price. On Friday, the price had declined by 6% over th...Read More
Inflammation does good and bad thingsfor the body. On the one hand, it is the body’s natural defense mechanismagainst physical injuries, viral infections, and bacterial infections. On theother hand, it produces symptoms of swelling, redness, and pain. Whenever a part of your body experiencestrauma, white blood cells flow to that body part to protect it. White bloodcells will kill the germs a...Read More
This young gold-stockupleg is accelerating, with fast-rising prices enticing in more capital. This sector has surged sharply to multiplemajor upside breakouts in recent weeks, which is starting to turn skeptics intobelievers. Despite their strong upside momentumbeing chased, gold-stock prices remain far from overbought levels warning ofimpending selloffs. This mounting uplegstill...Read More
The Chinese government held a meeting with the biggest iron ore, steel, copper and aluminium producers on Sunday May 23 to call for them to rein in commodity price hikes. Commodity leaders were told at the meeting to "proactively fulfill their social responsibilities" and make business decisions "for the benefit of the entire economy as a whole." "The key message is that we ought to obey our paren...Read More
Iron ore prices fell further on Monday May 24 amid weakening sentiment, after reports that Chinese officials had held further discussions on Sunday about how to curb high commodities prices, sources told Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets iron ore indices 62% Fe fines, cfr Qingdao: $192.42 per tonne, down $8.30 per tonne62% Fe low-alumina fines, cfr Qingdao: $193.87 per tonne, down $9.19 per tonne58% Fe fine...Read More
US Treasuries are as much sought-out by investors in a crisis or pending crisis, but lately, Treasuries have become much less popular as a means of storing wealth.The reason is simple: T-bills don’t offer a good return, and neither do other sovereign debt instruments. Although US Treasury yields have been climbing, owing partly to expectations of inflation, in recent weeks this trend ha...Read More
As top officials around the world convenethis week for a “climate summit,” President Joe Biden’s administration isplanning the most radical expansion of government’s role in the economy sinceFDR’s New Deal.The objective is nothing short oftransitioning the entire U.S. and world economy to “clean energy” – asdetermined and directed by central planners...Read More
S&P 500 closed in the the red, vindicating my bearishsentiment going into Monday‘s session. And as I have tweeted during the day, the sellling doesn‘t appear to be over. Friday‘s: (…) selling wave before the close looks to indicatehesitation ahead. Even though VIX is attacking the 16 level, and the put/callratio ticked higher, the bulls are little disturbed thus far. W...Read More
It's not just "us" versus "them". It's way more complicated, and so much simpler, than that...(by Half Dollar) I've been thinking a lot about the War of 1812 lately.Anybody remember that war?Ha!Just kidding.Nobody remembers that war.Nonetheless, moving into the Summer of 2021, the United States seems to be heading more for a War of 1812 problem than a Civil War problem, and while there has been a...Read More
Domestic prices for flat steel in Russia's Central Federal District around Moscow continue to rise, driven by strong demand, shortages, and rising export tags, sources told Fastmarkets on Monday May 24.Hot-rolled sheetMagnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) announced offers for June HR sheet at 105,000 ($1,426) roubles per tonne, while offers from Severstal were at 104,000 roubles per tonne, sources...Read More
Flat-rolled steel export prices from the Commonwealth of Independent States increased again during the week to Monday May 24, but offer volumes of some products were limited, sources have told Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for steel hot-rolled coil, export, fob Black Sea, CIS, was $1,085-1,125 per tonne on May 24, rising from $1,055-1,075 per tonne on May 17.CIS-origin offers of...Read More
RAPAPORT... India's polished-diamond exports reached their highest level in more than two years as manufacturers rushed to meet retail demand. April shipments came to $2.25 billion, compared with $35 million during the onset of the coronavirus pandemic a year earlier. The total was also 37% higher than the same period of 2019, according to recent data from the country's Gem & Jewellery Ex...Read More