Australia's Atlas Iron in May made its first iron ore sale for delivery into India and is looking to add other Asian and European destinations, it said in a presentation Tuesday. China has been Atlas' traditional offtake market, with the ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Iron ore prices
Large Chinese thermal coal miners were dropping their selling prices for domestic 5,500 kcal/kg NAR coal, depressing demand for imported material, sources said Friday. An Indonesia-based trader said that Shenhua had cut its price for ...
Tags: Thermal Coal, power plants
China Petroleum and Chemical Corp, or Sinopec, has raised its ex-works butadiene price in East China by Yuan 100/mt to Yuan 8,800/mt Friday, traders said. The latest price is equivalent to $1,182/mt on an import parity basis. But the ...
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Turkish petrochemical producer Petkim Thursday increased the prices of polyolefins by $15-20/mt, sources said. Petkim was not immediately available to confirm. New list prices for low density polyethylene, high density PE injection ...
Tags: Polyolefins, petrochemical producer, Petkim
Asian paraxylene buyers placed their counterbids for June at $1,150-1,170/mt CFR, more than $100/mt lower than nominations for the Asian contract price, sources close to the negotiations said Thursday. There are four PX ACP sellers in ...
Tags: paraxylene, oil
Platts Chinese import premiums for Good Western aluminum rose to $330-360/mt CFR plus LME cash Wednesday from $270-280/mt a week earlier as premiums in Europe, the US and Japan remained high. Western producers' offers to Japan for third ...
Tags: Aluminum Import, Import Premiums
Few spot deals for Indonesian thermal coal were reported Wednesday, as Indian buyers opted to purchase from port stocks while Chinese demand remained inactive, sources said. A Dubai-based trader said he had seen many inquiries from Indian ...
Tags: thermal coal, Chinese demand
The price spread in Asia between styrene monomer and its main feedstock benzene fell to a three-month low of $284/mt on Tuesday, as benzene supply has tightened while SM supply has increased, Platts data showed. The FOB Korea benzene ...
Iranian petrochemical traders currently sell all their products on a CFR basis in Asia instead of FOB to avoid payment issues, trade sources in Iran and Dubai said Tuesday. "We sell products on a CFR basis in countries like China so as to ...
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In the week from May 19 to May 25, on the Orbis Steel Index the Turkish scrap index moved down slightly, while the US (East Coast) HMS I/II scrap export index maintained its sideways movement. In the given week, the Turkish rebar index ...
Tags: Turkish Scrap, Steel
The seaborne iron ore cended a two-day rally and dipped again Friday, tracking a withdrawal in buying activity as the fast spike and current supply glut hit spot purchasing. Platts assessed the 62% Fe IODEX at $98.75/dmt CFR North China, ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Seaborne Seaborne
With the US styrene monomer price hitting a six-month low this week, the arbitrage to send cargoes from the US Gulf to Far East Asia has opened, traders said Friday. Offers for cargoes loading in June in the US and arriving in Northeast ...
Sentiment in India following the general elections appears bullish, boding well for the Indonesian thermal coal market, but there is no near-term catalyst being seen to drive Chinese demand up, sources said Friday. "It would still require ...
Tags: Thermal Coal, Mineral
The US ferrous scrap import market was quiet in East Asia during the week, regional traders said Thursday. Importing mills were staying away because they believed US scrap prices were likely to soften after iron ore broke the $100/dry mt ...
Tags: Steel Mills, Bulk Scrap
Miner Rio Tinto is to change the basis for the iron ore lump premium in its quarterly iron ore term contracts with Chinese mills to one based on a monthly average of weekly Platts spot lump assessments, from a fixed premium level set on a ...