Category archives: Ferrous
DCE corrects on narrowing steel margins
Iron ore future saw a slight correction and retreated from the recent rally due to narrowing steel margins. Thus, the most-traded iron ore for September delivery on China’s Dalian Commodity Exchange slipped slightly by 0.29% or RMB 2.50 to RMB 845.50 per tonne on Thursday. On the contrary, the steel rebar contract on the Shanghai …
Oil and Ore Intraday Morning Technical
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 …
London Iron Ore Market Report
FIS Castaway Podcast Episode 17
Nervous you don’t know enough about Air Freight Futures? Surely you can’t be serious…. Tune in to this week’s episode of FIS Castaway to learn more on AFFAs, and get the usual commodity market analysis from the FIS team. Available now on the FIS website (www.freightinvestorservices.com/media ) Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/7yMLsm5s8tLtrCQr7bG8wD?si=FW6Rvj9HRjClAx3vRjq8iw And Apple https://podcasts.apple.com/sg/podcast/fis-castaway/id1507094242 Disclaimer: freightinvestorservices.com/castaway-disclaimer/
Steel and Scrap News
*Physical scrap reaches one-month high Another busy week on the physical front with the latest fixture completed by a Baltic based seller at levels $5 up from last done. The 35kt cargo included 29kt HMS 80:20 and 6kT bonus scrap, transacted at $265/t CFR and $275/t CFR respectively, with first-half August shipment. Scrap futures have …