DCE slips on lower restocking activities

Chinese futures extended their drops on Wednesday, on limited activities in view of May Labour holiday ahead. The most-actively traded iron ore futures for September 2020 delivery on the Dalian Commodity Exchange (DCE) dipped by 0.58% day-on-day to RMB 595.50 per tonne on Wednesday. Following the decline, the steel rebar contract on the Shanghai Futures …

Capesize mutes ahead impending May holidays

Capesize paper market slid to downward trend on limited activities ahead of the May Labor holidays. Thus, the Capesize 5 time charter average went down by $120 to $8,172 with impending holidays in the Asia, such as China and Japan enjoying their Golden week holidays soon. Minning majors like Rio Tinto and FMG were still …

Upward impetus as oil market clings to hope

U.S. crude inventories rose by 10 million barrels to 510 million barrels in the week to April 24, data from industry group the API showed last night, compared with analysts’ expectations for a build of 10.6 million barrels. So not as bad as previously thought and lower than previous weeks which has definitely given the …