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28 February 2020
Surcharges pull back as commodity prices hit
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28 February 2020
At the same time as the flurry of base price increases, surcharges for both austenitic and ferritic grades of stainless steel are set to move down in March.
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28 February 2020
Downloadable Excel files with prices and other stainless steel statistics for the month of February 2020
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28 February 2020
Above all, is the fact that ferrochrome availability has tightened somewhat as well, with many of South Africa’s key smelters reducing output in the face of low prices.
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28 February 2020
A look back at our previous forecasts.
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28 February 2020
The average monthly spot price that Fastmarkets track has declined steadily since a high last October.
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28 February 2020
Combined, total exchange stocks are up a significant 37% so far this year, enough to overturn the narrative of nickel bulls over the past few years that availability of class 1 units has already started to become critically scarce.
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28 February 2020
As of late February sentiment has worsened, particularly as the month has come to an end.
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28 February 2020
In recent years, a sign of market weakness has been the increased use of discounting by stainless steelmakers and sellers to secure sales.
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28 February 2020
As part of our ongoing commitment to deliver relevant and robust prices, Fastmarkets MB research has undertaken a review of the pricing coverage of the Stainless Steels Market Tracker and is discontinuing some price series.
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28 February 2020
Our calculation of the discount on scrap relative to primary raw materials has been disrupted by movements in Europe’s ferrochrome market recently as well.