The latest news and price moves to start the Asian day on Thursday June 28.

The latest news and price moves to start the Asian day on Wednesday June 27.

The latest news and price moves to start the Asian day on Tuesday June 26.

China’s push to enhance its environmental protections has reached a tipping point, with the nation’s new target of implementing a complete ban of all scrap imports by the end of 2020 leaving US recyclers in a lurch.

The London Metal Exchange will introduce three regional hot-rolled coil contracts at the start of 2019, coinciding with a change in attitude towards risk management tools for the ferrous sector, according to the exchange’s business development manager.

Base metals prices on the Shanghai Futures Exchange were mixed during Asian morning trading on Monday June 25, with the main movers being zinc and nickel, albeit in opposite directions, while the rest of the metals traded sideways.

Chinese customs has suspended the publication of trade data for some key metal products including refined zinc, lead, nickel and copper raw materials such as scrap and concentrates, sources said.

The latest news and price moves to start the Asian day on Friday June 22.

Three-month base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange were for the most part weaker on the morning of Thursday June 21, with the complex down by an average of 0.2%. Nickel, up by 0.3% at $15,000 per tonne, was the exception. Copper was off by 0.3% at $6,797 per tonne.

The latest news and price moves to start the Asian day on Thursday June 21.