As per latest information from Black Sea, CIS steel export prices are rather stable, but future sentiments are moderately negative. Billet price decreased by USD 5 per tonne to USD 10USD during the week and expectations are rather ...
The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry said in Friday's preliminary reading rising for the first time in four months, Industrial production in Japan gained a seasonally adjusted 1.8% on month in October. The headline figure beat ...
Tags: industrial production, electronic parts, fabricated metals
According to Minister of Economy and Energy Delyan Dobrev, Bulgaria's gross domestic product is expected to mark a total growth of around 1% for 2012. Dobrev in an interview for the Bulgarian National Radio Sunday that "This GDP growth ...
PTI reported that blue chip Central Public Sector Enterprises like Coal India, Indian Oil Corporation, ONGC and SAIL have not fully utilized their funds allocated for undertaking corporate social responsibility projects in 2011-12. Mr ...
Daily News Egypt reported that businessmen expect the price of steel to rise in December as a result of growing demand and the rising price of raw materials worldwide. Mr Ayman El Geyoushi board member of El Geyoushi Steel Company expects ...
Tags: price of steel, result of growing demand, steel and cement
Indian mills chanced their first rub with market by increasing HRC price by INR 500 to 1000 per tonne after nearly 2 Quarters. Coming at fag end of the year it was pale shadow of the seasonal hike in price and demand in Q2 and Q3. ...
Tags: Indian mills, HRC price, seasonal hike
Reuters reported that Nickel prices may see a short term lift over the next several months due to a seasonal rise in demand for stainless steel, but next year's outlook is burdened by another market surplus. Nickel, a component in ...
Tags: Nickel prices, market surplus, seasonal rise
December 12, 2012 - A new survey argues that solar power will become much cheaper through 2025, while expanding greatly but, for these trends to continue for the long-term, a commitment to funding research is required. To get a sense of ...
Tags: solar power, energy, new energy, solar demand
The World Steel Association (worldsteel) announced the regional champions of the 7th steeluniversity.org Challenge. The regional championship took place on November 13th and 21st 2012 over two 24 hour periods. This year's competition ...
Tags: World Steel Association, global steel industry, regional championship
Reuters reported that spot iron ore touched 6 week lows as demand from top buyer China declined in tandem with falling steel prices, putting the raw material on course for its first monthly loss in 3. For November, iron ore is down 2% ...
Tags: spot iron ore, falling steel prices, first monthly loss
Reuters reported Myanmar's president asked opposition leader Ms Aung San Suu Kyi to head an investigation into the planned expansion of a copper mine that has led to evictions and protests that were forcibly put down by riot police this ...
Reuters reported that Sudan's new gold refinery has built up a daily production capacity of 900 kilograms. Sudan is boosting its production of gold and other minerals to tap new sources for foreign currency after losing Q3 of its oil ...
Tags: gold refinery, oil output, refinery
India Infoline reported that the US production of Aluminium declined to 202000 tonnes in the Q3 ending September 2012. The production of Aluminium was marginally lower compared to 216000 tonnes in Q2 this year. United States Geological ...
Tags: aluminium production, LME, India Infoline
According to the World Bureau of Metal Statistics' most recent report, the market surplus for primary aluminum between January and September 2012 was 488,000 tonnes which follows a surplus of 1,871,000 tonnes recorded for the whole of 2011. ...
Tags: World Bureau of Metal Statistics, primary aluminum, most recent report
IRIS reported that Broking firm Kotak Commodity Services gave following outlook on base metals segments: Copper - MCX Copper may trade under pressure amid stronger Indian rupee and rangebound movement in international market. LME Copper ...
Tags: base metals, international market, rangebound movement