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Breaking Views
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27 January 2010
We will be watching to see the movement of ferro-alloys prices over the next few weeks, with the rush of purchasing over as mills restocked depleted inventories. We believe that high carbon ferro-chrome prices will continue to move up, and Eti Krom’s force majeure will add weight to this movement. Higher nickel prices have pushed up stainless steel, which will allow higher ferro-chrome costs to be absorbed by producers and passed on to consumers. We will not be surprised to see molybdenum prices move up over the month as purchasing continues, albeit at a steady rate. With Chinese New Year approaching, this will exert downward pressure on prices as mills stop purchasing.
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13 January 2010
A positive start to the year with an increase in purchasing from Asia has pushed up European molybdenum prices. We expect that the tight supply of material will continue to see prices move up in January especially when European mills come back into the market. MBR believes that as rising input costs continue to impact ferro-chrome producers profit margins we will have to see a significant increase in Q2 2010 regardless of the demand situation. Eskom may have adjusted its tariff increase from 45% to 35% but this will still add a significant cost to producers.
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More breaking views...
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18 December 2009
Tentative demand against fragile underlying consumption should make for more cagey trading conditions in early 2010.
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18 December 2009
Few imports and relatively tight ferro-silicon stocks have supported US spot prices recently.
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18 December 2009
Downloadable Excel files with MBR's prices and other ferro-alloy statistics for the month of December 2009
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18 December 2009
The EU spot market jumped again in December.
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18 December 2009
European demand is flat and availability is adequate.
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18 December 2009
With stocks at multi-year highs and still climbing, it would not be surprising to see prices remain under pressure.
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18 December 2009
Charge chorome contract price settlements were made earlier and quieter than expected.
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18 December 2009
The molybdenum market has been relatively stable, though prices are now creeping higher
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18 December 2009
The severe lack of demand and tougher competition to complete transactions has lead to aggressive trade tactics.