China’s spot rebar prices fell again on Monday December 24, due to weak billet prices and rising inventories.

Global crude steel output fell by 5.1% year on year to 162.7 million tonnes in April, the World Steel Association (Worldsteel) said on Tuesday May 24

Rebar sales to the Chilean construction industry hit their lowest monthly level for 2012 in September at 42,710 tonnes, according to figures from the country’s construction chamber, CCHC.

Rebar futures on the Shanghai Futures Exchange dropped to an historical low on Thursday May 15, following the release of poor power consumption data.

Ahead of the annual North American Ferro-alloys conference in Chicago on September 25-27, Fastmarkets looks at some of the key factors likely to dominate vanadium contract negotiations over the coming weeks.

Fastmarkets has discontinued its weekly assessments of the Latin America rebar export price, which was reported on a dollar per tonne fob main port basis, with effect from Friday March 15.

Metal Bulletin has today corrected its assessment for the Turkey rebar export market.

Turkey exported 6.48 million tonnes of rebar with a value of $4.14 billion in the first nine months of the year, according to customs data.

The Mexican rebar market is expected to remain largely stable in 2016, as private investments in the construction sector are compensating for reduced expenditure on public works.

Fastmarkets has discontinued its weekly price assessment for Algeria rebar imports, expressed in € per tonne cfr. There will be no price assessment on October 10.