Category archives: Ferrous

DCE rises on supply tightness and high restocking demand

Iron ore futures continued its upward momentum since the start of the week, due to market optimism over steel and restocking demand. The most-traded May iron ore contract on China’s Dalian Commodity Exchange (DCE) then rose to 4% on-day or RMB 40 to RMB 1,039/mt on Tuesday. The steel rebar contract on the Shanghai Futures …

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Daily Ferrous Physical Review 4/1/21

Ferrous Market –    Steelbank Inventory: construction steel inventories 3.19 million tonnes, down 7.92% w-o-w. HRC 1.27 million tonnes, down 0.51% w-o-w. –    Some physical traders heard FMG increase discount from 7% to 10% on FMG SSF, and 4% to 8% on FMG BF. –    Jan 4th : MySteel 45 ports iron ore inventories at 124.16 …

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Iron Ore DCE May Daily Technical Review 4/1/21

Verdict – Short-term neutral to bullish. DCE iron ore rebound significantly by 3.35% with smaller aggregated trading volume for the second trading day, indicating market was running on bullish sentiment without significant conflictions. From hourly chart, CCI created new high from November 9th. Small stochastic KD widened after gold cross. The first support is 972.0. …

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