[Ferro-Alloys.com]The LME nickel price closed at $16,860/t last week, with high at $17,854/t and low at $16,483/t, down 5.15%. On Tuesday this week, the price reached a fresh low this month at $16,483/t, which brought the price back to the beginning of April t...

[Ferro-Alloys.com] Chinese FeV was offered at RMB79,000-80,000/mt (USD12,950-13,114/mt, export duty excluded) by acceptance. In late September, the output of steel mills increased from August, so tender volume and price of mills followed to rise. Major steel m...

[Ferro-Alloys.com] Chinese FeMo60 was offered at RMB94,000-95,000/mt (USD15,409-15,573/mt, export duty excluded) by acceptance. Major steel mills couldn’t support FeMo market, with deals concentrating on scattered buying activities. Steel mills’ tender price...

[Ferro-Alloys.com] Given ample supply in China, it seems that imported manganese ore spot market in China would be hard to show dramatic change.

[Ferro-Alloys.com] In recent period, prices for manganese alloys kept poor performance with downturn sale. Silicon manganese 6517 is currently pricing at RMB6,200-6,400/mt and RMB5,400-5,500/mt for 6014. High carbon ferromanganese 65 is now concentrating on 5,...

this week the chrome ores spot price kept stable while some mines of futures continued to decrease. It was predicted that the Cr ores price would not be well then as the FeCr price was seen to go down in Oct..

For the poor market situation of stainless steel and nickel, the FeNi capacity release would not recover then. The nickel ores price still suffered falling risk.

In recent week both the Chinese producing FeCr and import FeCr stayed stable while it was expected that the price would further decline for the high production. In addition, the benchmark price of HC FeCr in Oct. released by Baosteel decreased by RMB50/mt once...