Unionized workers at Codelco's Chuquicamata copper mining and smelting complex in Chile have accepted the company's offer of a new labor contract, union officials said in the early hours of Thursday June 27.

The first day of the Group of 20 (G20) summit in Japan gets underway on Friday June 28. With world leaders gathering at the event, and a few notable meetings scheduled on the sidelines, market participants will be keeping a close eye on any developments.

The possibility of new restrictions in major steelmaking regions in China will likely give long steel prices in the country - which have been trending upward since hitting a price floor a week ago - a further boost in July.

Ningbo Asia Paper Tube & Carton Box, a wholly-owned subsidiary of APP China, acquired a 5% stake in Shandong Bohui Paper Industry as of June 20. The corrugated packaging enterprise has revealed it plans to increase its holdings in the Shanghai-listed company to 6-15% in the next 12 months. Ningbo Asia Paper Tube & Carton […]

Base metals prices on the Shanghai Futures Exchange were mostly little changed to weaker during Asian morning trading on Friday June 28, with aluminium leading on the downside.

Fastmarkets MB is proposing the launch of weekly export price assessments for stainless grade 304 Chinese hot-rolled coil and cold-rolled coil.

Here are five Fastmarkets MB stories you might have missed on Thursday June 27 that are worth another look.

A gallery collapse at Glencore's Kamoto Copper Company in the Democratic Republic of Congo has killed 19 people, the company said in a filing on the London Stock Exchange on June 27.

Fastmarkets will two months from the publication of this notice delist and cease to publish 40 steel scrap, non-ferrous scrap and foundry ingot prices that it currently carries from third parties.

Nickel’s three-month price on the London Metal Exchange continued its uptrend during morning trading on Thursday June 27, with short-covering activity pushing the metal’s outright price higher while trade optimism supports commodity investment.