Daily Ferrous Physical Review Aug 24th

Ferrous Market –    Shanghai 16-25mm rebar consolidate from 3670- 3690 yuan for previous 6 weeks. However Rizhao PBF increased 18.63% during the same period. Thus many northern mills rebar profit has been squeezed to negative area. Mills started to think about decrease sintering ores and increase proportion of lumps, which currently running at historical low …

Morning Oil Report 24/8/20

Good morning all. Brent futures were down 2 cents, or 0.1%, to $44.33 a barrel by 3:16 am GMT, while WTI futures slipped 2 cents, or 0.1%, to $42.32 a barrel.   With the markets moving into a soft contango and the front-month struggling to breakout topside even as broader risk market stabilize, traders have …

Supply tightness push iron ore prices to further height

A total of 2.035 million mt of iron ore was exchanged hands for the week ended Aug 21, with Australian fines accounting most of the trades. Australia’s Mac fines garnered most of the market share at 18.67%, followed by Jimblebar fines at 17.69%, while the Brazil’s Carajas fines coming in third at 14.50%. During the …

DCE corrects upon cautious trading

Iron ore futures closed lower by the end of the week, as more buyers became cautious after iron ore prices reached a record-high level earlier in the week. Thus, the most-traded iron ore for January 2021 delivery on China’s Dalian Commodity Exchange dropped by 1.29% or RMB 11 day-on-day to RMB 841.50 per tonne on …

Ship Shape – A Sleeping Bull in a China Shop

Sleepy Joe may have confirmed Kamala Harris as his running mate for the US Presidency, but there is another sleepy factor lurking in the background, ready to bring either fireworks or a quiet slide into obscurity towards the end of this year. The world has endured a period of huge upheaval. From the virus outbreak …