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Industrial Metals, Shanghai Moves Without Direction: Lead Leads Gains Thanks To Batteries And Falling Inventories
The Shanghai industrial metals market opens the October 20, 2026 session with mixed performance. Lead records the most significant increase, at 0.62%, while copper, aluminium and zinc decline slightly. Supporting the metal used mainly in batteries are improving...
Green Hydrogen And European Steel: Steelmaking Accounts For 31% Of Demand From Projects Under Construction
The steel industry accounts for 31% of the clean hydrogen end-use demand expected from electrolysis projects currently under construction in Europe. The figure, contained in Hydrogen Europe's Clean Hydrogen Monitor 2026 and reported by Kallanish, captures the central...
Ukrainian Steel, New EU Quotas Deepen The Crisis: Metinvest Warns Of The Risk Of Sector Collapse
Ukraine's steel industry faces a crisis that no longer depends solely on the war. Since July 1, 2026, the European Union's tightening of steel import quotas has added a commercial obstacle to the destruction of plants, energy difficulties and logistical problems....
Base Metals In China, SHFE Stocks Fall But Copper Bucks The Trend: Up 25.9% In A Week, Tin Down 16.5%
Copper is accumulating in Shanghai Futures Exchange warehouses, while all the other major base metals are seeing their deliverable inventories decline. That is the picture emerging from the weekly report for Friday, October 16, 2026: copper stocks reached 73,962...