Xinhua reported that China’s securities regulator has approved trading in stainless futures and styrene to provide enterprises with new risk management tools. The Shanghai Futures Exchange can carry out trading in stainless steel futures, and the contracts will be listed for trading on September 25. The Dalian Commodity Exchange can carry out styrene futures trading,…
Prices in most of the global markets for steel billet dropped sharply in the week ended Friday August 30 amid unfavorable market conditions – in particular, poor demand and falling scrap prices. China Weakening demand for billet continued to push Chinese domestic billet prices down, sources said. Re-rolling mills in Tangshan were expected to reduce…
Steel beam prices in the United States have fallen in tandem with recent mill cuts, while fresh offers have lowered import prices. Fastmarkets’ monthly price assessment for steel beams 8 x 8-inch, fob mill US, declined to $35.25 per hundredweight ($705 per short ton) on Thursday August 29, down 7.8% from July’s assessment of $38.25…
Cold-rolled coil prices in the United States were steady on Thursday August 29, while hot-dipped galvanized pricing slipped modestly. Fastmarkets’ weekly assessment for cold-rolled coil, fob US mill, was unchanged at $37.50 per hundredweight ($750 per short ton) on Thursday, while that for the hot-dipped galvanized base price slipped by 1.3% to $37.50 per cwt from $38…
Nickel’s three-month price on the London Metal Exchange continued to trend higher during morning trading on Friday August 30, breaking through the 2018-high while its cash/three-month spread remains tight. Reaching an intra-morning high of $16,835 per tonne, nickel futures surged past the key $16,690-per-tonne resistance level achieved in the wake of US-imposed sanctions on Russian…
Jiuquan Iron & Steel Group (Jisco) plans to temporarily close its Alumina Partners of Jamaica (Alpart) refinery for over a year in the next two to three months, sources told Fastmarkets on Friday August 30. Sources close to the matter said the refinery, which is located in Nain in St Elizabeth, Jamaica, needs to shut…
All base metal stocks at Shanghai Futures Exchange-approved warehouses were lower week on week on Friday August 30, with the biggest percentage fall in nickel stocks, which tumbled by 15.2% or 4,509 tonnes to 25,262 tonnes. The largest outflow in nickel inventories was from CMST Dachang’s warehouse in Shanghai, which delivered out 3,927 tonnes leaving…
An aluminium producer has offered fourth-quarter 2019 supply of aluminium to main Japanese ports (MJP) at a premium of $110 per tonne, according to market sources. The number is 1.9% higher than the cif MJP premium for the third quarter of $108 per tonne. “We are quite surprised that the offer is above $105 per tonne because…
