Iron Ore DCE January Daily Technical Review Aug 31st

Verdict – Short-term neutral. DCE iron ore September decreased positions massively since this is the last trading day for individual clients before entering delivery month at sep contract. The fall of September contract indicated there is no delivery profits for September buyers after market pushed high earlier today. At the same time, jan contract is …

Daily Ferrous Physical Review Aug 31st

Ferrous Market –    China August Manufacture PMI 51.0, est. 51.2, last 51.1. –    Tangshan execute environment production restriction on August 31st, the third environment curb over past two weeks. Physical steels push up significantly after hearing the curb. Northern ports operation are impacted by typhoon weather over weekends and expected to recover on Tuesday after …

Low grade ores take the centerstage

A total of 1.237 million mt of iron ore was exchanged hands for the week ended Aug 28, lowered than the 2.035 million mt recorded last week. Low grade fines took the centerstage this week, as Yandi fines accounted the most transacted at 22.63%, followed by Jimblebar fines at 16.17%, then SFM1 at 14.32% and …

Capesize rates fall despite higher rates for Brazil routes

Capesize freight rates took a slight dip despite a bullish physical market run with better rates for the Brazil routes. Thus, the Capesize 5 time charter average went for slight correction and fell by $121 day-on-day to $18,775 on Thursday. Then, the Baltic Dry Index (BDI) followed the dip and went down by 0.33% day-on-day …

DCE ends the week higher on robust steel demand

Iron ore futures closed the week on higher notes due to robust steel production as well as concerns over shipping disruptions from Typhoon Bavi. The most-traded iron ore for January 2021 delivery on China’s Dalian Commodity Exchange then rose by 1.40% or RMB 11.50 day-on-day to RMB 832.50 per tonne on Friday. Then, the steel …