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Ferts in Focus 26/8/20

*Urea markets cool ahead of MMTC tender This week saw intl urea markets drift lower as expectations of price levels in MMTC’s upcoming tender were scaled back due to Chinese export appetite. As a result, AG paper traded down to $260 for the October and November contracts and was offered into the mid $260s for …

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Morning Oil Report 26/8/20

Good morning all. Brent rose 12 cents, or 0.3%, to $45.98 a barrel by 3:35 am GMT, while WTI remained steady at $43.35 a barrel.   The back-to-back tropical storms Marco and Laura has seen upstream operators shut about 1.558 million b/d of oil, or 84.3% of offshore production, by August 25, according to latest …

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Daily Ferrous Physical Review Aug 26th

Ferrous Market –    Ganggu Construction Steel Inventory: production 1.92 million tonnes, up 2.73% w-o-w. Mills inventory 2.96 million tonnes, down 8.40% w-o-w. Circulation inventory 5.38 million tonnes, down 5.52% w-o-w. –    MySteel 45 port previous week iron ore arrived 24.99 million tonnes, down 1.58 million tonnes w-o-w. Northern six ports arrivals at 13.78 million tonnes, …

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DCE dips on cautious trading

Iron ore futures softened for the second consecutive trading day as trade participants become more cautious after the rally seen last week. Thus, the most-traded iron ore for January 2021 delivery on China’s Dalian Commodity Exchange dropped by 1.83% or RMB 15.50 day-on-day to RMB 832.50 per tonne on Monday. However, the steel rebar contract …

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