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Ferrous Sector Money Flow: DCE iron ore aggregated open interest is up 38.97% from April 29th and reached the highest level in Q2, coking coal decreased by 18.55% during the same period. Steel, coke and flat glass used in house construction remained stable on open interest. Investors should be aware of money flow out of …
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OPEC+ is responding to the oil market’s collapse with an urgency never seen before. The alliance’s program of production cutbacks this month is well on the way to trimming 9.7 million barrels of daily crude output – roughly 10% of global supplies, according to tanker-tracking data, interviews with physical crude traders and refiners, and assessments …
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China’s house-price growth accelerated in April as the central bank’s credit easing gave the property market a much-needed lift out of the coronavirus shutdown. * New-home prices in 70 major cities, excluding state-subsidized housing, gained 0.42% in April, National Bureau of Statistics data released Monday showed. That’s up from a 0.13% increase in March. * …
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FIS Capesize Technical Report Technically bearish with limited downside as the index already has a USD 2k handle. Up USD 402 today would suggest the index is entering a countertrend move, however price that fails at or below USD 7,330 remains vulnerable to further tests to the downside. To view the full report please click …
Mining major, Rio Tinto’s first blockchain iron ore trade with Baosteel this week may set the trend for more such trades to come. The paperless trade transaction was done via the Contour trade finance blockchain platform, that breaks away from the traditional paperwork when documents were normally couriered for inspection. This ‘breakaway’ buried the image …
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China’s statistics bureau releases industrial output data. Crude steel output in April rose 0.2% y/y to 85.03m tons Crude steel output in Jan.-April rose 1.3% y/y to 319.46m tons Steel products output in April rose 3.6% y/y to 107.01m tons Steel products output in Jan.-April fell 0.2% y/y to 374.39m tons Primary aluminum output in April rose 1.5% y/y to …
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