Daily Virtual Steel Mill Report 23/3/22

Market Verdict on Iron Ore: • Neutral.   Macro • China NDRC and NEA(National Energy Administration) planned to reach 4.6 billion tons equivalent of sta • On March 22, Chinese National Development and Reform Commission and the National Energy Administration issued the “14th five year plan” for modern energy system. By 2025, the annual comprehensive …

Daily Virtual Steel Mill Report 22/3/22

Market Verdict on Iron Ore: • Neutral.   Macro • China PM Li Keqiang held a conference to enhance tax return and tax exemption policy to support economy growth. • European Central Bank Committee Olli Rehn indicated that central bank potential start interest rate increase by the end of this year or the beginning of …

Iron Ore DCE May Daily Technical Review 22/3/22

Verdict – Short-term bearish. DCE iron ore May22 contract slumped during the last two hours and created a mid-run roof areas. If a rejection on 810 – 813.0 while next rebound would generally mean iron ore re-entered a bearish trend. All support above 740.5 are believed as weak support. Hourly stochastic KD has created bearish …

Iron Ore DCE May Daily Technical Review 21/3/22

Verdict – Short-term neutral. DCE iron ore May22 contract re-entered into a consolidation range in short-run. After a spike at Friday night and a test low in Monday morning, iron ore finally closed near the open level at Friday night. May-Sep22 spread started to narrow, when major contract rolling started from last week. Front month …

Daily Virtual Steel Mill Report 21/3/22

Market Verdict on Iron Ore: • Neutral.   Macro • China and U.S. held an internet conference during the tight worldwide political conditions in the first quarter of the year 2022. Although both countries have different views on the Russia-Ukraine war, however both countries thought the talk was “constructive” and mentioned to improve the cooperation …

Iron Ore DCE May Daily Technical Review 18/3/22

Verdict – Short-term neutral. DCE iron ore May22 contract rebounded during the open over night session, however consolidate around 830.0 area for most of time in the day session. A breakthrough on 838.5 would indicate a new round of spike. Hourly CCI potentially drop from the bullish territory. Hourly slow stochastic KD flattened in an …

Daily Virtual Steel Mill Report 18/3/22

Market Verdict on Iron Ore: • Neutral. Macro • BOE raised interest rate by 25 basis point to 0.75% as expected. The lending cost recovered to pre-pandemic level. Q2 inflation rate raise from 7.25% to 8%. • China Ministry of Industry and Information Technology: promote more strategies to support stablised economy growth. Become prudent on …

Iron Ore DCE May Daily Technical Review 17/03/22

Verdict – Short-term neutral.   DCE iron ore May22 contract extended growth as expected yesterday. However the close was almost flat to the high open. DCE iron ore apparently entered a small round of consolidation, major trading area concentrated between 795.0 – 810.0 area. Hourly MACD narrowed above 0 axis. Hourly slow stochastic KD potentially …

Daily Virtual Steel Mill Report 17/3/22

Market Verdict on Iron Ore: • Neutral to bullish. Macro • As expected, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) of the Federal Reserve raised the federal benchmark interest rate range by 25 basis points to 0.25% – 0.50%, the first interest rate increase since December 2018. Fed officials expect interest rates to reach 1.9% by …

Iron Ore DCE May Daily Technical Review 16/3/22

Verdict – Short-term neutral bullish. DCE iron ore May22 contract recovered major loss over the previous two days following the sentiment of China equities spike. Hourly MACD created gold cross during day session. Hourly slow stochastic KD created gold cross near oversold area in last evening. Technical signals are indicating a recovery in continuance. The …