After speculators had sold nearly 8 million bales net since early May, they finally seemed to move to the sidelines, allowing the market to recover some of its losses this week. The latest CFTC report as of July 29 showed speculators ...
Tags: Speculators, Decline, Textile
In July of the current year, China's total foreign trade value amounted to $378.481 billion, indicating a year-on-year increase of 6.9 percent, as announced by the Chinese customs authorities on August 8. In the given period, the total ...
In June of the current year, China's total foreign trade value amounted to $342.013 billion, indicating a year-on-year increase of 6.4 percent, as announced by the Chinese customs authorities on July 10. In the given month, the total value ...
Tags: China, foreign trade, Metallurgy, Mineral
In May of the current year, China's total foreign trade value amounted to $355.024 billion, indicating a year-on-year increase of 3.0 percent, as announced by the Chinese customs authorities on June 8. In the given month, the total value of ...
Tags: Trade Surplus
Futures prices continued to tumble this week, as negative fundamental and technical factors exerted additional downward pressure on the market. Abundant rainfall in West Texas over the Memorial Day weekend could potentially add 1.5-2.0 ...
Tags: Cotton, Cotton Futures
The US sheet steel market might be in for another stretch of relative stability, as new upcoming outages balance import pressure and drab demand, market sources said Thursday. One industry consultant said manufacturing -- and thus steel ...
Tags: Steel Sheet, steel consumption
Global demand for imported thermal coal is expected to continue to grow but at a slower rate of 2% per year until 2018, as China faces an oversupply of domestic coal and shifts to a more diverse mix of renewable energy sources to address ...
Tags: Thermal Coal, coal production
It was a combination of technical weakness and economic worries that weighed on the market this week, as the spot month moved perilously close to the important 90 cents support level, settling at its lowest level since March 13. From a ...
In April of the current year, China's total foreign trade value amounted to $358.627 billion, indicating a year-on-year increase of 0.8 percent, as announced by the Chinese customs authorities on May 8. In the given period, the total value ...
Tags: Foreign Trade
The Singapore Exchange (SGX) will launch two coking coal swaps contracts in July settled against prices produced by The Steel Index (TSI), to capitalize on growing interest in steel raw materials derivatives, the exchange said in a ...
Tags: Coking Coal, coking coal futures
The price of gold weakened on Monday after data showed a crimping of demand from top importer China. On the Comex division of the New York Mercantile Exchange, gold futures for June delivery fell through the psychologically important ...
Tags: Gold Price, Housing Market
The market has felt deflated ever since the wild ride on March 26, during which the spot contract shot up to a high of 97.35 cents/lb before dropping more than 500 points below that level by the end of the session. From a technical ...
Tags: Cotton Futures, Xinjiang cotton
Miner BHP Billiton expects India to lead future demand growth for coking coal, as Chinese imports steady while global competition from suppliers in Australia, Russia and North America intensifies. The world's biggest seaborne coking coal ...
Tags: Coal Demand, coking coal, coking coal miner
NY futures resumed their uptrend this week, as May rallied 380 points to close at 91.61 cents, while December gained 171 points to close at 79.55 cents. After meandering sideways for the past six weeks, unable to generate much ...
Tags: Cotton Futures, Cotton market, Textile
In the January-February period of the current year, China's total foreign trade value amounted to RMB 3.87 trillion ($632.35 billion), indicating a year-on-year rise of 0.9 percent, according to the Chinese customs authorities. In the given ...
Tags: Foreign Trade