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Stainless Steel Ingots, Critical Market Between Stalled Demand And Geopolitical Uncertainty
The stainless steel ingot market continues to move in an extremely fragile context, marked by very weak demand, scarce liquidity and uncertainty that remains the main brake on purchasing decisions. The operators interviewed by siderweb described the picture without...
Copper Concentrates, TCs Increasingly Negative: The Market Moves Toward Index-Linked Pricing
The copper concentrates market recorded a new deterioration in the week ended Friday July 3, with the treatment charge index falling below the negative threshold of $160 per tonne. The movement confirms a phase of strong tension for smelters, while the availability of...
Base Metals Little Changed In Shanghai, But Zinc Leads The Gains
Base metals prices on the Shanghai Futures Exchange showed a mostly sideways trend during morning trading on Tuesday July 7, with limited movements across most of the most-traded contracts. In a market still waiting for clearer indications from US monetary policy and...
Chinese Stainless Steel Production Rises Again In May, Driven By Type 300
Chinese stainless steel production continued its month-on-month growth in May 2026, supported above all by a strong increase in the output of type 300 stainless steel, according to data published on Monday June 29 by the China Stainless Steel Council. The figure...