Mills in Bangladesh purchased three bulk cargoes in the last week, with prices easing gently, sources told Fastmarkets on Thursday January 14.

Market sources have been puzzled by the gradual upward trend in China’s steel prices after the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) broke out in a big way after the Lunar New Year holiday.

ArcelorMittal has begun the revamp of a blast furnace in Brazil earlier than planned, and has also temporarily stopped operations at a rebar facility in the country due to market conditions.

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The price of shredded steel scrap imported into India and Pakistan jumped on Friday November 20, with available material in short supply and a strong Turkish market, sources told Fastmarkets.

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An oversupply that has been branded the leading cause of the persistent price weakness seen in China’s vanadium market during the first half of 2019 will likely continue to act as a headwind for the rest of the year, market sources told Fastmarkets.

Fastmarkets is proposing to launch a weekly Pakistan import shredded steel scrap index to provide transparency to a market whose global prominence was recently demonstrated by its robust performance even during the most testing conditions of the initial Covid-19 pandemic.

Just as China and the United States started to reach a deal and trade tensions eased, providing some longed-for certainty, the novel coronavirus (2019-nCov) has again increased fear and uncertainty in the steel and feedstock markets.