Ferrous Market Updates – Steelbank Inventory: rebar inventories 7.60 million tonnes, up 1.12% w-o-w. HRC 1.88 million tonnes, up 2.04%. – China Mettallurgical Association statistics indicated Jun China iron ore concentrates 23.77 million tonnes, up 2.7% m-o-m. Jan – Jun iron ore production 130 million tonnes, down 0.3% y-o-y. Glencore said it will lower coal …
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FIS Weekly Ferrous Report 28072020
Daily Ferrous Physical Review Jul 27th
Ferrous Market Updates – Steelbank Inventory: rebar inventories 7.52 million tonnes, up 2.38% w-o-w. HRC 1.84 million tonnes, up 1.85%. – China H1 pig iron production 432.68 million tonnes, up 2.2% y-o-y. Crude steel production 499.01 million tonnes, up 1.4% y-o-y. – China metallurgical research institution said China steel per GDP will decrease in long …
Iron Ore DCE September Daily Technical Review Jul 24th
Verdict – Short-term bearish. Iron ore corrected two rounds during Asian hours and both with significant volume. From hourly chart, iron ore is creating lower highs and lower lows, correcting in a descending channel. Hour MACD is widening. Hourly slow stochastic KD has corrected from overbought area from July 22nd to areas above oversold area. …
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Daily Ferrous Physical Review Jul 24th
Ferrous Market Updates – MySteel researched 247 steel mills operation rate at 91.02%, up 0.26^ w-o-w, up 5.08% y-o-y. Blast furnace utilisation rate 93.08%, up 0.12% w-o-w, up 6.72% y-o-y. Daily pig iron production at 2.48 million tonnes, up 3,200 tonnes, up 178,800 tonnes w-o-w. – Mysteel 45 ports iron ores inventory 113.25 million tonnes, …
Iron Ore DCE September Daily Technical Review Jul 23rd
Verdict – Short-term consolidation. Iron ore closed slight higher than last closing however created lower highs and lows, indicating exhausting in current trading days. The support observed from hourly chart at 835.0. The resistance is a descending line connecting 861.5, 854.5 and 849.5. However be aware of the divergence of last minute market between rebar(up) …
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Daily Ferrous Physical Review Jul 23rd
Ferrous Market Updates – MySteel Rebar Inventory: Rebar production 3.83 million tonnes, down 0.03% w-o-w. Mills inventory 3.43 million tonnes, up 3.63% w-o-w. Circulation inventory 8.55 million tonnes, up 1.57% w-o-w. – CISA: mid-July major mills crude steel daily production 2.14 million tonnes, up 0.36% from early July. Pig iron 1.91 million tonnes, down 0.42% …
Iron Ore DCE September Daily Technical Review Jul 22nd
Verdict – Short-term consolidation. Iron ore tested high and give back all gains, along with 4% of open interest loss in last twenty minutes. Return to bull market needs a breakthrough on 861.5. From hourly chart, Slow stochastic created a dead cross near overbought area. CCI created dead cross with iron ore price. Slow stochastic …
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Daily Ferrous Physical Review Jul 22nd
Ferrous Market Updates – Ganggu construction steel production 5.79 million tonnes, up 0.41% w-o-w. Mills inventory 5.28 million tonnes up 4.59% w-o-w. Circulation inventory 11.25 million tonnes, up 1.17% w-o-w. – MySteel Australia and Brazil iron ore delivery at 24.2 million tonnes, up 925,000 tonnes w-o-w. Australia delivery to China 16.46 million tonnes, up 1.998 …