Author archives: Hao Pei

Ferrous Market –    Mysteel 64 steel mills seaborne sintered iron ore inventory 17.64 million tonnes. Iron ore inventory turnover in 26 days. –    Mysteel steel mills import iron ore inventory 114.45 million tonnes, up 1.9 million tonnes w-o-w. Sintered iron ore daily consumption 3.04 million tonnes, up 29,400 tonnes w-o-w. –    MySteel 45 ports iron …

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Verdict – Short-term neutral. DCE iron ore Jan contract attracted 469 million yuan money inflow during the day, while rebar jan evaporated 328 million yuan. Iron ore May contract rebound 1% more than Jan contract due to rolling. However DCE Jan contract still double the positions of May contract. The completion of rolling is expected …

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Ferrous Market –    MySteel Rebar Inventory: Rebar production 3.60 million tonnes, up 0.03% w-o-w.Mills inventory 2.33 million tonnes, up 0.15% w-o-w. Circulation inventory 4.5 million tonnes, down 7.68% w-o-w. –    Mongolia built a “green area” at the port to help the virus tests on coal truck drivers. Thus port operation became more efficient, however current …

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Verdict – Short-term neutral. DCE iron ore Jan contract tested high two times during the trading day, however resisted by 892.0, which was 2 yuan from previous high. The two pick up both gave back all gains within half hour, indicating some short-run money speculating. Be aware of rebar jan, which had corrected three days by …

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Ferrous Market – MySteel Australia and Brazil iron ore total delivery at 23.71 million tonnes, down 2.18 million tonnes w-o-w. Australia iron ore delivery 16.68 million tonnes, down 1.67 million tonnes w-o-w. Australia delivery to China 13.95 million tonnes, down 864,000 tonnes w-o-w. Brazil iron ore delivery 7.03 million tonnes, down 506,000 tonnes w-o-w. – Tangshan 32 mills daily production impacted by maintance …

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Verdict – Short-term neutral to bearish. DCE iron ore Jan contract leaked in the first Asian morning session with the biggest one hour trading volume since Nov 6th, indicated the current high became a resistance level. The low of the day was same point as the high in Nov 17th at 861.5. A breakdown on this level …

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Ferrous Market – Steelbank Inventory: construction steel inventories 3.92 million tonnes, down 12.67% w-o-w. HRC 1.58 million tonnes, down 8.68%. – Tangshan 8 mills average pig iron pre-tax cost 2446 yuan/tonne, billet after-tax cost 3181 yuan/tonne, up 2 yuan/tonne. Gross profit 449 yuan/tonne, up 48 yuan from last week. – Peru Mining statistic indicated iron ore September production at …

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Verdict – Short-term neutral to bullish. DCE iron ore Jan contract created yearly high again during the day. A correction above 874.0 should be consider as a normal correction and market remain bullish. At the same time, DCE iron ore may contract was weaker since the long jan-may arbitraging. The key driver of ferrous growth …

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Ferrous Market –    MySteel 45 ports iron ore inventories at 127.51 million tonnes, down 263,000 tonnes w-o-w. Daily evacuation 3.22 million tonnes, up 49,200 tonnes w-o-w. Australia iron ore 59.88 million tonnes, up 111,500 tonnes w-o-w. Brazil iron ore 41.61 million tonnes, up 578,900 tonnes w-o-w. 129 ships at ports, down 1 w-o-w. –    Mysteel …

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