LIVE FUTURES REPORT 12/09: LME nickel spreads tighten; price closes below $18,000 per tonne

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…

IRON ORE DAILY: Seaborne prices close in on $100/tonne amid rush to build inventories ahead of National Day holiday in China

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…