Prices for shredded steel scrap imported into India and Pakistan rose in the week to Friday July 2, with trading activity focusing on the Pakistan market over India. In the Pakistan imported scrap market, sellers achieved higher shredded prices this week following solid rebar sales. Fastmarkets calculated its weekly steel scrap, shredded, index, import, cfr Port Qasim, Pakistan at $539.51 per...Read More

Gold's recent selloff looked familiar in that it resembled the types of gold selloffs that occurred when the Fed talked about tightening its loose policy for years in the mid-2010s.It sure talked a good game. But, when it came time to really test how much tightening the debt-saturated economy could handle, by late 2018, the Powell Fed folded like a cheap suit.In fact, the Fed not only felt compell...Read More

The United Kingdom market for inter-merchant light iron scrap was steady for the second consecutive week to Friday July 2, with relatively low availability and firm demand from steelmakers supporting prices.UK scrap generation, which has been recovering heavy losses from 2020 when heavy industry was affected by Covid-related restrictions, is set to drop again this summer due to cuts in car manufac...Read More

1: The stock market is deliriously overvalued by history's standards…2: Investors fully acknowledge 1…3: Investors continue to pile into the stock market despite 1.Conclude the gentlemen and ladies of Bespoke Investments:"Investors simultaneously think the market is overvalued but likely to keep climbing."Natixis Investment Managers adds that wealthier Americans - those with a minimum...Read More

China's Wuxi Stainless Steel Exchange will launch trading of its new battery-grade lithium carbonate contract on Monday July 5. The contract will be the first of its kind to be launched by a Chinese exchange for the battery raw material, the exchange has announced.The front-month Wuxi contract for physically delivered lithium carbonate will be October 2021, putting the guiding opening price at 88...Read More

Iron ore prices dropped on Friday July 2 on depressed market sentiment and a possible crude steel output cut in several areas which could weaken demand for iron ore, sources said. Fastmarkets iron ore indices 62% Fe fines, cfr Qingdao: $217.98 per tonne, down $1.34 per tonne62% Fe low-alumina fines, cfr Qingdao: $219.57 per tonne, down $2.18 per tonne58% Fe fines high-grade premium, cfr Qingdao: $...Read More

China's domestic hot-rolled coil prices dipped on Friday July 2 on retreating futures, with sentiment being subdued by a lifting of production and logistical curbs in northern China that were imposed in the past week. DomesticEastern China (Shanghai): 5,430-5,480 yuan ($838-846) per tonne, down by 20-30 yuan from 5,460-5,500 yuan per tonne. Northern China (Tangshan) weekly assessment: 5,320-5,380...Read More

East China's rebar prices dropped on Friday July 2 due to weak demand on poor weather during the day, ending the week 10 yuan per tonne lower than June 25.DomesticEastern China (Shanghai): 4,830-4,860 yuan ($746-750) per tonne, down by 40-50 yuan per tonneNorthern China (Beijing) weekly assessment: 4,780-4,820 yuan per tonne, up by 20-30 yuan per tonneHeavy rain in large parts of eastern and south...Read More

Most base metal inventories in Shanghai Futures Exchange-registered warehouses dropped in the week to Friday July 2, with zinc registering the largest fall in percentage terms at 8% week on week.Zinc inventories fell by 2,824 tonnes on Friday to 32,490 tonnes, with the largest outflow from the Quansheng Logistics warehouse in Shanghai, where stocks were down by 2,852 tonnes to 12,604 tonnes, accor...Read More

Aluminium and copper prices on the London Metal Exchange remained firm during morning trading on Friday July 2 amid low-volume trading. The three-month aluminium price was most recently at $2,527 per tonne, up by $15 per tonne from $2,512 per tonne at the close of trading on Thursday. The contract has trading in a tight range of $2,506-2,527 per tonne on Friday morning. LME aluminium stock levels...Read More

Base metals prices on both the London Metal Exchange and the Shanghai Futures Exchange were mixed this morning, Friday July 2, and were looking quite divergent. Base metalsLME three-month copper ($9,314 per tonne) and aluminium ($2,516 per tonne) were up by 0.5% and 0.3% respectively, while the rest were down by an average of 0.3%, led by a 0.7% fall in nickel ($17,970 per tonne). In recent days,...Read More

An overview of the aerospace materials markets and the latest price moves.Cristina Belda and Dalila Ouerghi...Read More

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

The Cobalt standard grade, in-whs Rotterdam, $/lb trade log including business, bids and offers reported to Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets publishes trades logs for its key price assessments and indices to bring more transparencyinto the markets it covers and the pricing process it applies.Fastmarkets assessed Cobalt standard grade, in-whs Rotterdam, $/lb...Read More

The Cobalt alloy grade, in-whs Rotterdam, $/lbtrade log including business, bids and offers reported to Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets publishes trades logs for its key price assessments and indices to bring more transparencyinto the markets it covers and the pricing process it applies.Read More

The Cobalt hydroxide payable indicator, min 30% Co, cif China, % payable of Fastmarkets' standard-grade cobalt price (low-end) trade log including business, bids and offers reported to Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets publishes trades logs for its key price assessments and indices to bring more transparencyinto the markets it covers and the pricing process it applies.Fastmarkets assessed Cobalt hydroxide p...Read More

The Cobalt sulfate 20.5% Co basis, exw China, yuan/tonne trade log including business, bids and offers reported to Fastmarkets.Fastmarkets publishes trades logs for its key price assessments and indices to bring more transparencyinto the markets it covers and the pricing process it applies.Fastmarkets assessed...Read More

Monthly European alloy steel surcharges for grade-316 stainless steel have surged for July because of a sharp increases in the price of molybdenum, Fastmarkets heard on Friday July 2.Fastmarkets' calculation of stainless steel cold-rolled sheet 316 2mm alloy surcharge domestic, Europe was ?,?2,902-2,946 ($3,439-3,492) per tonne for July, up by ?,?242-271 per tonne from June.The substantial increas...Read More

China's leading stainless steel producer, Tsingshan Group, has raised its tender prices for July-delivery ferro-chrome by 950 yuan ($147) per tonne from that for the preceding month, the company said on Friday July 2.The eastern China-based mill set its tender price for July-delivery high-carbon ferro-chrome at 8,395 yuan per tonne. The latest tender price is 12.76% higher than the 7,445 yuan per...Read More

Explorer Banyan Gold (TSXV: BYN) is on track to deliver a second resource estimate early in 2022 for its flagship AurMac property in the Yukon, president and CEO Tara Christie tells The Northern Miner.She expects a busy six months of news flow ahead as the team wraps up the field season at the early-stage exploration property, which Christie says forms part of an emerging district-scale gold-silve...Read More