Spot supply of calcium metal was no longer in serious shortage and market price began to drop in China.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Chinese APT was offered at RMB-/mt, but real transaction price was RMB-/mt .

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Chinese FeW was offered at RMB-/mt by acceptance.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]It is reported that China totaled exported 1,440.77 mt high carbon ferromanganese in July according to the latest data, showing a sharply increase of 148% m-o-m. In the first seven months, exports of high carbon ferromanganese in China totale...

London Metal Exchange nickel has spurted from US$6.31 a pound in December 2013 to US$8.64 in July and should climb to US$10.75 in 2015 and US$12 in 2016, the Scotiabank report says.

It was assessed that Ferro Chrome producers were unwilling to correct offers on the background of high production costs from winter power tariffs in South Africa and tight supply as well as high prices of Chrome ore in India. Sellers also had limited spot mate...

As August was soon past, many major steel mills gradually released bids for ferrosilicon for September delivery. In terms of purchase volumes, some kept flat volumes and others were seen with slight decreases.

In End August, Chinese calcium carbide market kept stable with capability utilization rate at about 70%, which slightly rose up compared with that in July. The raw materials market ran stable and didn’t sustain the production cost. Meanwhile, the demand from ...