Civil unrest, Covid-19 and supply curbs – three factors that could keep cobalt prices high through 2021

The Turkish steel mills continued to limit their deep-sea scrap bookings in the week ended Friday July 16 due to weak finished steel sales, while the downturn in the country had a knock-on effect on prices in the global markets.

The Vietnam Steel Association (VSA) is leading an industry-wide pushback against the country’s proposed export tax of 5% on steel billet, it said on Friday July 23.

Fastmarkets’ Asia ferro-silicon prices were published early today due to an editor error.

The last outbreak of ASF in 2018 and 2019 left the world’s largest pig producer and consumer with its populations slashed by a third. Can we expect the same, if not worse, this time?

Traders grapple with high freight prices, Russian tax changes and extreme weather concerns. What does this mean for forward bookings of new crop Black Sea wheat?

China’s wheat imports this year will surge to nearly one-and-a-half times that of the last marketing year due to growing demand in the animal feed sector.

Base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange and Shanghai Futures Exchange were mixed on the morning of Monday July 19, with nickel and tin the standout performers, driven higher by supply disruptions.

Australia-listed Vulcan Energy has signed a binding offtake agreement to supply South Korea's LG Energy Solution (LGES) with battery grade lithium hydroxide from it's 'zero carbon' facility in Germany, the producer said on Monday July 19.

While crops in the United States and Canada are already being impacted by hot and dry weather conditions, China is looking to Australia for its high-protein wheat supply.