Small differentials for low-carbon aluminium in Europe were achievable for both primary aluminium and value-added products in June, market participants told Fastmarkets. But high underlying premiums for aluminium continued to cap any significant movement in low-carbon differentials. Fastmarkets assessed its aluminium low-carbon differential P1020A, Europe at $0-5 on Friday July 2, up from zer...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

Copper concentrate treatment and refining charges rose to their highest in five months on Friday July 2, reflecting smelters looking to capitalize on a recent uptrend.Fastmarkets' benchmark copper concentrate TC/RC index, cif Asia Pacific came in at $38.10 per tonne / 3.81 cents per lb on Friday, up from $36 per tonne / 36 cents per lb a week...Read More

With automakers switching to producing vehicles with batteries reliant on metals such as cobalt and lithium, the expectation for lead has been that prices will follow the downward fortunes of the internal combustion engine.But recently that has not been the case; lead's cash price on the London Metal Exchange reached a three-year high of $2,368 per tonne on Wednesday June 30, crowning nine straigh...Read More

The Argentinian government's decision to extend a discount on electricity costs to the second half of 2021 is insufficient to increase aluminium production capacity to full utilization, local producer Aluar said on Thursday July 1 in a filing to the country's securities and exchange commission, CNV.Aluar's Puerto Madryn plant, located in Argentina's Patagonian region, was running at 70% capacity a...Read More

Hot-rolled coil prices in the United States topped $87 per hundredweight for a second consecutive day, with mills still unable to meet surging demand, market participants said.Fastmarkets' daily steel hot-rolled coil index, fob mill US was calculated at $87.74 per cwt ($1,754.80 per ton) on Friday July 2, up 0.29% from $87.49 per cwt on Thursday July 1 and up 3.54% from $84.74 per cwt on June 25.I...Read More

Indian domestic hot-rolled coil prices have corrected by about 1,500 rupees ($20) per tonne after incentives were offered by steel mills to distributors in the face of poor demand for HRC.Fastmarkets' price assessment for steel HRC, domestic ex-warehouse India was 67,000-69,000 rupees ($899-926)per tonne on July 2, down from last week's 68,500-70,500 rupees per tonne. "Price support has been offer...Read More

Hot-dipped galvanized and pre-painted galvanized coil prices decreased in Turkey during the week to Friday July 2, with demand weakening ahead of national holidays, sources told Fastmarkets.Market participants expect reduced market activity in the second half of July because of the national holidays taking place on July 15, which is Democracy Day in Turkey, and July 19-24 for the Ei al-Adha holida...Read More

Domestic prices for hot-rolled coil in Northern Europe slipped further on Friday July 2 following a slowdown in trading, sources told Fastmarkets.Buyers opted to limit purchases while assessing the market trend. Long lead times from domestic producers, sufficient stocks among buyers for the next couple of months, and exhausted credit lines as a result of high prices for finished steel, have all co...Read More

Hot-rolled and cold-rolled coil prices decreased in Turkey during the week ending Friday July 2 before the long holiday starts in the country on July 15, sources told Fastmarkets.July 15 is Democracy Day in Turkey and July 19-24 will be the Ei al-Adha holiday, so market participants expect reduced activity in the second half of July.Low priced sales from Russia to several destinations during the w...Read More

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Indian authorities have extended anti-dumping duties for both hot-rolled and cold-rolled flat steel products from certain countries until December 15 of this year, according to two notifications published by the Indian ministry of finance on Tuesday June 29. The duties for hot-rolled steel apply to hot-rolled flat products of alloy or non-alloy steel originating in or exported from China, Jap...Read More

SKS Business Services: How to outsource finance function servicesSPONSOREDsks business servicesSaturn set to ring in further gold potentialSPONSOREDsaturn metalsAuteco brings A-game to Pickle CrowSPONSOREDauteco mineralsKingwest heralds new dawn for MenziesSPONSOREDkingwest resourcesCovering an area of around 266km, the new licence is home to the historic Josva copper mine, which featured reported...Read More

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Domestic steel rebar prices in Poland were broadly flat in the week to Friday July 2, with local mills being largely sold out for July rolling and mulling new rises for August, sources have told Fastmarkets.Major domestic rebar producers in Poland were reported to have no July volumes remaining.Demand in the local market continued to be strong, despite rebar prices being at historic highs, driven...Read More

U.S. equity index futures were higher this morning. S&P 500 futures were up 10 points in pre-opening trade.Index futures moved higher following release of economic news at 8:30 AM EDT. Consensus for June Non-farm Payrolls was an increase to 700,000 from 559,000 in May. Actual was 850,000. Consensus for June Unemployment Rate was a drop to 5.6% from 5.8% in May. Actual was an increase to 5.9%....Read More

The export market for pig iron from the Commonwealth of Independent States was muted during the week to Thursday July 1 because both buyers and suppliers preferred to wait for the result of Russia's export duties on supply to become clearer. Fastmarkets assessed the price of high-manganese pig iron, export, fob main port Black Sea, CIS at $610-630 per tonne on Thursday, narrowing downward fro...Read More

European Metal Recycling (EMR) is to transform its dock operations in Scotland with a multi-million-pound development that will make it more competitive and reduce carbon emissions, the company announced on Monday June 28.The 11.5-acre site at Berth 10 of the West Quay at Glasgow's King George V dock will be EMR's most innovative deep-sea dock in the UK, allowing the company to transfer material i...Read More

Turkish deep-sea scrap import prices fell at the end of the week after a fresh cargo from the Baltic Sea came to light, market participants told Fastmarkets on Friday July 2.A steel mill in the Izmir region booked the Baltic Sea cargo, comprising 25,000 tonnes of HMS 1&2 (80:20) at $495 per tonne and 5,000 tonnes of bonus at $510 per tonne cfr, late on Thursday July 1.This was fourth the deep-sea...Read More