China and Iran recently signed a 25-year trade deal not surprising given that one is a major OPEC producer and the other one of the world’s largest importers of crude. The deal is worth $400billion, including oil quotas and gives China ‘first dibs’ on Iran’s exports. This would produce a large trade flow from …
Monthly archives: August 2020
India drives global urea markets
After a slight pause mid-week, following chaos then clarity around Chinese trade with India, urea markets resumed their rally into the end of last week. MMTC wrapped up their most recent tender on Friday, securing 700kmt of urea at prices $19 and $15 higher for the east and west coast respectively, than the previous purchasing …
Capesize rates make solid gains on bullish market
It was another bullish day for the Capesize market, with the physical market making solid gains to push up the freight rates. The Capesize 5 time charter average then rose by $1,636 day-on-day to $20,687 on Tuesday, with talk of C5 heading to $9.00 and the C3 rumoured to surge toward the $18.90. Following the …
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DCE continues winning streak on small gains
Iron ore futures booked slight gains on Wednesday to continue the rally for the third consecutive trading day on supply tightness issues. The most-traded iron ore for September delivery on China’s Dalian Commodity Exchange hiked upward by 0.40% or RMB 3.50 day-on-day to RMB 888 per tonne on Wednesday. However, the steel rebar contract on …
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Iron Ore DCE September Daily Technical Review Aug 3rd
Verdict – Short-term consolidate at high level. DCE iron ore September contract closed slight lower than yesterday. A further breakthrough on 897.0 would drive price to a fast growing tunnel. However a breakdown on 874.0 would lead iron ore to short-run correction. From hourly chart, slow stochastic KD created dead cross last night and deepened …
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Daily Ferrous Physical Review Aug 5th
Ferrous Market – Brazil iron ore July export 33.99 million tonnes up 13% from June. – China 45 ports arrivals at 25.28 million tonnes, up 1.61 million tonnes. Northern six ports arrivals at 13.96 million tonnes, up 1.09 million tonnes. – Mysteel iron ore deliveries at 23.73 million tonnes previous week, down 815,000 tonnes w-o-w. …
