On a month on month basis, the CPI rose by 1.0% in January, 0.3 percentage points higher than that of last month.

In December 2020, U.S. steel mills shipped 7,049,785 net tons, a 4.4 percent increase from the 6,753,447 net tons shipped in the previous month.

The campaign will last until the end of March.

The 2105 ferrosilicon contract price on ZCE closed at 7338 yuan per ton on February 18.

The 2105 ferrosilicon contract price on ZCE closed at 6814 yuan per ton on February 8.

On February 3, the daily turnover of steel in China was 18300 tons,lower than 100000 tons per day for 9 consecutive days and 50000 tons per day for 5 consecutive days.

Weekly Report of Chromium Market (2.1-2.5): electricity price increase in Inner Mongolia is good for ferrochrome and chrome ore prices.

The increase took overall shipments for the last year to 407mn, slightly higher than a government-set target for the year of 400mn t.