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...

At the end of Sept., most of stainless steel mills had cut down the benchmark price of high FeNi in Oct.. In addition, the LME nickel price had declined for three weeks. In this condition, many manufactures presented pessimistic attitude for FeNi market and we...

Before National Day, calcium silicon price in China kept low. Calcium silicon market kept steady and consumers were not active in purchasing calcium silicon. Some certain factory in Ningxia stopped functioning.

Metallurgical Si metal price remained firm in the last week of September in China. And Chemical si metal price tended up. Some factories changed capacity to silicon metal.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]In July, 2014, China imported 869mt moly concentrates, down 26.7% M-o-M(1,186mt) and 8.8% Y-o-Y(953mt).

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Chinese FeTi30 was offered at RMB10,500-10,800/mt (USD1,721-1,770/mt, export duty excluded) by acceptance, but the transaction volumes were fewer than expected. The buying volumes of steel mills for FeTi30 didn’t decrease much, but transacti...