Iron ore prices of just under $120/mt are likely to stay flat in the medium term, with some softening expected in the short term, a Sanlam Securities' mining analyst said Wednesday. "There's going to be volatility in the iron ore price as ...
Tags: Iron Ore, Medium Term
Softer coastal freight rates for shipping domestic thermal coal from northern to southern ports in China has put seaborne-traded cargoes at a slight price disadvantage, and renewed downward pressure on CFR South China prices, said traders ...
Following the boom in expansion of the Chinese LED market in 2011, many industry insiders and analysts speculated on whether China would be able to sustain the growth, or if many companies simply ordered an excessive amount of metal-organic ...
Tags: LED market, LED industry
Brazil-based miner Vale has announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and the full year of 2013, reporting a net loss of $6.45 billion, compared to a net loss of $2.61 billion in the same quarter of the previous year, as a ...
Iron ore demand intensity in China will fall further amid continuous drops in steel market prices and lower steel outputs, the China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) said in its monthly report published on its official website. Chinese ...
Chinese import prices for ferrochrome and charge chrome were unchanged this week, as market activities slowed ahead of the Lunar New Year holidays starting end-January. The spot price for Indian-origin high carbon ferrochrome (58-60% Cr) ...
China would see a greater shortage of paraxylene (PX) supply in 2014, says a latest report prepared by the economics and technological research institute under the China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation (Sinopec), according to an article ...
Tags: Px Shortage, Px
A few Chinese thermal coal buyers were reportedly concluding deals for March-delivered imported shipments, even as most of them were getting ready to wind up for the upcoming holidays, sources said Monday. A mini-Capesize cargo of ...
The Chinese import price for Indian-origin ferrochrome (58-60% Cr) inched higher to 84-86 cents/lb CIF China Friday, from 84-85 cents/lb CIF a week ago, as Chinese buyers lifted their price ideas amid a strengthening Chinese yuan against ...
Tags: Origin Material, Chemicals
Gross production of LED chips by domestic Chinese companies (listed companies with mainly Chinese investment backgrounds) was US $8.49 million (NT $255 million), a YoY increase of 17%, according to LEDinside. Rapid increase of penetration ...
Tags: LED Chip, Commercial Lighting
Chinese domestic thermal coal prices have fallen further, fuelling speculation that some power utilities might be looking to walk away from existing contracts for imported material, sources said Monday. "I have heard rumours maybe that ...
Tags: Thermal Coal, Domestic Prices
Spot prices of 98.5% 553-grade silicon metal in Asia continued to rise this week as suppliers lifted offer prices on deepening output cuts in South China. Platts assessed the Chinese export spot price at $2,050-2,090/mt FOB China ...
Tags: Silicon, Spot prices
Spot prices of 98.5% 553-grade silicon metal in Asia rose this week as sellers raised offer prices due to output cuts in South China. Platts assessed the Chinese export spot price at $2,040-2,060/mt FOB China Thursday, up from ...
As of December 16, inventory of iron ore at 25 major Chinese ports amounted to 83.844 million mt, indicating a decrease of 975,000 mt or 1.15 percent week on week, as announced by China's Xinhua News Agency . As of the same date, the ...
Tags: iron, metallurgy
China's Ministry of Commerce (MOC) has announced preliminary antidumping determinations against certain alloy steel seamless tubes and pipes for high-temperature and high-pressure applications from the European Union, Japan and the US, ...
Tags: Initial Ad Ruling, Seamless Pipe