DCE bounces back on better buying interests

Iron ore futures rebounded on Thursday over higher buying interests for limited mainstream Australian fines. The most-traded iron ore for September delivery on China’s Dalian Commodity Exchange then rose slightly by 0.85% or RMB 7.00 day-on-day to RMB 826.50 per tonne on Thursday. On the contrary, the Shanghai Futures Exchange stayed rather flattish before dipping …

Iron Ore DCE January Daily Technical Review Aug 13th

Verdict – Short-term neutral. DCE iron ore tested low and recovered most of losses. Daily slow stochastic KD created dead cross in overbought area. CCI created bearish divergence with iron ore price since August 6th. This bearish divergence normally indicate price has correction risk. The return to bull needs a breakthrough on 851.5. A breakdown …

Morning Oil Report 13/8/20

Morning all. Brent futures were down 8 cents at $45.35/b at 7:26 GMT, while WTI futures were down by 4 cents at $42.62.   US Energy Information Administration data released on August 12 showed that US commercial crude inventories fell 4.51 million barrels to 513.08 million barrels for the week ended August 7 and narrowed …

Daily Ferrous Physical Review Aug 13th

Ferrous Market –    Ukraine export 27.03 million tonnes of iron ore from this January to July, up 16% y-o-y. –    China National Statistic Bureau: major steel enterprises crude steel daily production 2.15 million tonnes, down 0.87% from late July, up 5.14% y-o-y. Daily pig iron 1.92 million tonnes, down 0.6% from end July, up 5.39% …

Capesize rates move slowly amid thin market activities

Capesize rates continued to move at downtrend manner amid the short trading week with muted physical activities. The Capesize 5 time charter average then dropped by $493 day-on-day to $19,204 on Tuesday, despite some showing some strength at late afternoon session. The Baltic Dry Index (BDI) still reflected some strength in the dry bulk market …