A summary of China's ores and alloys exports for May 2021.In brief China's silico-manganese export market was active due to a combination of strong demand and tight supply in the global silico-manganese market. APT exports in May dropped amid a slow overseas market. Overseas buyers were cautious in buying the material once the price reached $270 per...Read More

A summary of China's ores and alloys imports for May 2021.In brief May imports of ferro-chrome declined because buyers were less concerned about domestic supply after Inner Mongolia loosened its energy controls on high consuming companies in the second quarter. Manganese ore imports rose month on month with increased arrivals from...Read More

An overview of the specialty steel raw materials markets in Europe and their latest price moves.Janie Davies and...Read More

Turkish steel producers have extended their absence in the deep-sea scrap market due to weak rebar sales, market participants told Fastmarkets on Wednesday June 23.Steelmakers have now been absent from the market since June 15, when two cargoes were sold into Turkey from the United States.A mill in the Marmara region bought both cargoes, comprising HMS 1&2 (80:20) at $500 and $501 per tonne, plus...Read More

Buyers in South Korea have been willing to pay higher prices for Japanese scrap recently, outbidding Chinese buyers, sources told Fastmarkets on Wednesday June 23.The South Korean market has been highly interested in higher-quality scrap from Japan in recent months amid high special steel demand and rising scrap intake at some basic oxygen furnaces (BOFs) due to carbon neutrality policie...Read More

Rebounds were under way in the base metals in London and Shanghai this morning, Wednesday June 23, but we will have to wait to see how the metalsreact to today's manufacturing purchasing managers index (PMI) data.To reassure the markets, United States Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell said: "We will not raise interest rates pre-emptively because we think employment is too high [or] because we...Read More

Australia-listed IGO Ltd is one step closer to forming a joint venture with Chinese lithium producer Tianqi Lithium after key regulatory requirements for the internal restructuring of the Australasian arm of the latter to proceed have been satisfied, IGO said on Tuesday June 22. In December 2020, both companies signed an initial investment agreement which saw Tianqi's wholly-owned subsidiary Tianq...Read More

Few things in this world fill me with more dread than I-95. Even though that highway stretches 1,908 miles along the Eastern Seaboard, there's just one 103-mile strip between Philadelphia and Baltimore that is my own personal hell at least once per year. On paper, that drive shouldn't take more than two hours. A quick glance at a map, and you'll find that short stretch of highway incredibly invi...Read More

Here are five Fastmarkets stories you might have missed on Wednesday June 23 that are worth another look.Swedish special steel producer Ovako is to collaborate with carmaker Volvo Group, Hitachi ABB Power Grids, H2 Green Steel and Nel Hydrogen to invest in hydrogen production at Hofors in Sweden, it has been announced.Read More

Domestic transaction prices for hot-rolled coil in Northern Europe went up on Wednesday June 23, driven by the continuing shortage of material, sources have told Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets calculated its daily steel hot-rolled coil index, domestic, exw Northern Europe, at ?,?1,185.04 ($1,411.73) per tonne on Wednesday, up by ?,?30.04 from ?,?1,155.00 per tonne on June 22.The index was up by ?,?50.04...Read More

Hot-rolled coil prices in China's domestic market cruised higher on Wednesday June 23, with coking coal supply concerns actin as support and helping to stem the decline in steel futures prices.DomesticEastern China (Shanghai): 5,280-5,380 yuan ($814-830) per tonne, up by 10-70 yuan per tonne. The most-traded HRC contract on the Shanghai Futures Exchange climbed more than 1% to an intraday high of...Read More

US imports of standard steel welded wire mesh from Mexico are being or are likely to be sold at less than fair value, the Commerce Department said in a final determination on Wednesday June 23.The weighted-average dumping margin has been set at 110.42% for Deacero SAPI de CV and 23.04% for Aceromex SA de CV and all other exporters. Commerce had estimated those margins at 23.67-152.68% in its preli...Read More

Prices for steel hollow sections in Europe rose on Wednesday June 23 following an increase in feedstock costs, sources have told Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets' price assessment for steel sections (medium), domestic, delivered Northern Europe, was ?,?1,370-1,420 ($1,632-1,692) per tonne on June 23, up from ?,?1,320-1,340 per tonne on June 16.The price of hot-rolled coil, the feedstock for hollow sections...Read More

The rebar price in Southern Europe held steady at multi-year high levels on Wednesday June 23 due to supply shortages and surging scrap feedstock costs, sources told Fastmarkets. Fastmarkets' weekly price assessment for steel reinforcing bar (rebar), domestic, delivered Southern Europe was at ?,?760-785 ($905-935) per tonne on Wednesday, the same as last week. The price, however, has been ris...Read More

Turkish steel producers have extended their absence in the deep-sea scrap market due to weak rebar sales, market participants told Fastmarkets on Wednesday June 23.Steelmakers have now been absent from the market since June 15, when two cargoes were sold into Turkey from the United States.A mill in the Marmara region bought both cargoes, comprising HMS 1&2 (80:20) at $500 and $501 per tonne, plus...Read More

Iron ore prices rose on Wednesday June 23 amid improved sentiment because of the possible easing of blast furnace restrictions in China's Tangshan province and the sharp rise in coal prices, sources said.Fastmarkets iron ore indices62% Fe fines, cfr Qingdao: $216.01 per tonne, up by $1.69 per tonne62% Fe low-alumina fines, cfr Qingdao: $219.34 per tonne, up by $3.34 per tonne58% Fe fines high-grad...Read More

Buyers in South Korea have been willing to pay higher prices for Japanese scrap recently, outbidding Chinese buyers, sources told Fastmarkets on Wednesday June 23.The South Korean market has been highly interested in higher-quality scrap from Japan in recent months amid high special steel demand and rising scrap intake at some basic oxygen furnaces (BOFs) due to carbon neutrality policie...Read More

Join Greg Hunter of USAWatchdog.com as he goes One-on-One with economist and money manager Michael Pento, founder of Pento Portfolio Strategies.Michael Pento is a specialist in Austrian economics and is the President of Pento Portfolio Strategies. Prior to starting Pento Portfolio Strategies he served as a senior economist and VP of the managed products division of another well known financial fir...Read More

What do tulip bulbs and cryptocurrencies have in common? Today's episode proves that amateurs are at the highest risk for losing big when an asset is in a bubble. You need only look at our crazes in modern times like the tech stock bubble of the early 2,000s, the sub-prime crisis in 2008, and even the designer fruit craze in modern-day Japan, where it can cost up to ?20,000 for a square waterme...Read More

Daniel Lacalle, PhD, economist and fund manager, is the author of the bestselling books Freedom or Equality (2020) and Escape from the Central Bank Trap (2017). He is a professor of global economy at IE Business School in Madrid and Chief Economist at Tressis SV. Ranked as one of the top twenty most influential economists in the world in 2016 and 2017 by Richtopia, he holds the CIIA financial an...Read More