Chinese iron ore futures rose for a second day on Tuesday on expectations the country will enact more economic stimulus measures that would boost steel demand in the world's largest consumer of the metal. The country plans to create favourable conditions for private Chinese companies and to improve the competitiveness of its manufacturing sector, as…
The proposal by Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing Ltd (HKEX) to buy the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has raised a number of questions among metals market participants, most of whom are skeptical that the deal will go through during a time of political upheaval. HKEX’s £29.6-billion ($36.5-billion) proposal to acquire the LSEG was announced on…
JSW Steel has recorded a 13% drop in crude steel production in August 2019. JSW Steel informed BSE that crude steel production for August 2019 was at 1.25 million tonnes as compared to 1.45 million tonnes in the same period last year. Production of flat rolled products saw a decline of 13 per cent to…
SHANGHAI, Sep 12 (SMM) – Production of stainless steel in China grew in August for a second straight month, rising 2.93% from July to 2.6 million mt, showed an SMM survey.August’s output was 18.03% higher than the corresponding month of 2018.#300-series accounted for 1.23 million mt, up 5.13% from a month ago and 8.01% from…
The three-month nickel price on the London Metal Exchange was lower at the close of trading on Thursday September 12, while considerable tightness in the metal’s forward spreads prompted market questions of prospective deliveries into LME warehouses to ease trading conditions. Despite moderately low volumes at just over 6,000 lots exchanged by the close, nickel’s…
Reuters reported that Nippon Steel Corp said that one of two basic-oxygen furnaces at Kimitsu Steel Works in Chiba prefecture east of Tokyo had halted operations since Monday after a chimney that discharges gas collapsed due to a typhoon. A spokeswoman at Nippon Steel said that “We are still investigating the damage and we don’t…
U.S. Steel warned the state of Indiana its "indefinite idling" of East Chicago Tin because of an abrupt decline in the tin can business will displace 307 workers, though the steelmaker said the total number of layoffs will more likely total around 150. Pittsburgh-based U.S. Steel said it hopes to transfer more than 150 displaced…
Seaborne iron ore prices surged on Thursday September 12 amid support from Chinese steelmakers stocking up ahead of the week-long National Day holiday at the start of October. Fastmarkets iron ore indices 62% Fe fines, cfr Qingdao: $99.30 per tonne, up $4.64 per tonne. 62% Fe Pilbara Blend fines, cfr Qingdao: $99.69 per tonne, up $4.64 per…
