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Iodine sellers were testing buyers with spot market offers above Fastmarkets' range, but the price held steady due to a lack of confirmed deals.
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The outbreak of the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) and the subsequent slowdown in China, one of the world’s largest iodine consumers, is yet to have an impact on the iodine spot market, as the price held firm this week.
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Iodine vendors in Japan have reported achieving higher prices in the week ended Friday February 14, continuing the slow climb seen since the start of the year.
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The range in the iodine price has continued to widen while the price increases, causing downstream companies to struggle to pass on rises to their customers.
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View the Fastmarkets holiday pricing schedule for 2020 and 2021.
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The iodine spot market has continued on an uptrend over the past seven days, with prices rising for the third consecutive week and the top end of the range approaching $40 per kg.
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Beginning in 2020, Fastmarkets will review its pricing methodologies and price specifications across all its Price Reporting Agency (PRA) divisions - Metals & Mining and Forest Products - on an annual basis rather than twice per year.
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The iodine price continues to rise on growing demand and a plateau in supply. The latest move in the iodine market sees Japanese producers edge their prices closer to those at the top end of the market.
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The undersupply in the iodine market continues to push prices higher, with market participants forecasting price increases into the first two quarters of 2020.
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The iodine contract price jumped again in Fastmarkets' final assessment of 2019, meaning the price has increased by more than a quarter over the past year.
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Iodine consumers are ordering greater volumes on contract for 2020 supply, according to two sellers who both see growth here at 5% compared with 2019 contracts.
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Market tightness continues to drive price increases for iodine with contracts reaching levels last seen in April 2015, although one producer believes that further increases could be coming.
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The low end of the spot iodine assessment range rose, supported by continued tight supply, while civil unrest in Chile is yet to affect the price.
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The market is flat this week after iodine producers gave their fourth quarter spot price offers in the previous week's assessment.
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The global iodine market's price ranges have been narrowing amid sustained price increases, while overall prices reported have been close to and above $32 per kg due to suppliers' attempts to achieve higher prices.
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Market tightness has continued to weigh on the iodine spot price, pushing it to levels last seen in May 2015.
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Market tightness continued to support the iodine spot price, drawing an end to an eight-week period of flatness.
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Sellers of iodine have reported achieving prices higher than the assessed range, but the price has remained steady for a sixth week - the longest such streak in a year.
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Firm iodine prices have divided opinion on whether consumers will withhold buying material and if supply is truly tightening.
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While consumers digest the latest price increase in the iodine spot market, they are trying to resist the need to buy, to test whether sellers will reduce their latest offers.
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Iodine prices spiked by $2 per kg last week in the highest single-week increase since the iodine price recovery started.
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The iodine spot price range reached its widest point for three and half years last week as prices from Japan continued to lag behind increases instigated by Chilean sellers.
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The contract price for iodine rose again amid speculation of dwindling supply, but consumers are questioning whether the price hikes are backed by fundamentals.
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The spot price for iodine has suddenly jumped by $1.50 per kg, with Asian consumers reported to be willing to pay prices at the top of the new range.
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Offer prices for iodine were rejected by one consumer, while another was looking for cheaper sources of supply although the market was still facing upward price pressure.
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Fastmarkets IM is waiting for confirmation from the buy side of spot deals at $30 per kg or higher before moving the range, while positive sentiment pushes up contract prices for the second quarter.
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Iodine market participants reported hearing of prices as high as $33 per kg during this week’s price assessment, but no transactions were confirmed at that price.
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Varying reports have come through on exactly how much inventories are being held by the producers in Chile, after undersupply had pushed iodine prices up for the past 18 months.
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Market participants have reporter higher offers for the next quarter but the spot market was steady this week.
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The iodine price range has stayed as wide as as $2 per kg.
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The iodine price was flat again although one iodine producer reported an increasing number of inquiries from consumers, while in Chile heavy rains affected production and logistics but only for a few days last month.
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The iodine spot market continued to weaken week on week, with the range narrowing downward in what could be a market correction.
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The low end of the spot price range for iodine has fallen for the third time in a month, with Japanese producers reporting low sales prices.
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The price of iodine price has risen for a second week, while market participants query SQM’s latest proposed expansion.
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The iodine contract market price remained higher than the spot market price for the second month in a row due to consumers looking to sign longer-term contracts and with the iodine market still undersupplied.
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Two market participants reported the iodine spot market was now above $27 per kg - a price distributors have been trying to breach for the past eight weeks.
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Certain Fastmarkets prices will be rolled over between December 25 and January 1 in observance of the Christmas and New Year holidays.
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The iodine spot market held firm this week, despite European distributors continuing to test the market with high offers - this time in response to additional inquiries received.
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Quarterly contract prices in the iodine contract market have exceeded spot market levels for the first time in almost two years.
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The rise in iodine contract prices have slowed in the second half of 2018, with one market source pointing to large volume contracts signed when prices were lower.
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Iodine price increases have slowed since the last week of July despite the market remaining under-supplied, but distributors have continued to test consumers with offers slightly above current market prices.
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Iofina's CEO predicts stronger iodine prices for the rest of 2018, he told Fastmarkets IM.
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With the iodine market undersupplied, sellers have been trying to push through a price rise to $27.50 per kg, although consumers are reluctant to accept a price that high.
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Market participants are waiting for this week's pharmaceuticals event to gauge market sentiment and see where prices might settle for the remainder of the year.
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The poor performance of the currencies of India and China has prompted sellers there to destock, keeping price steady and confounding expectations that this year's price increases would continue.
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Stockpiled iodine is being sold off at attractive prices, which has stopped some sellers achieving higher prices.
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Iodine buyers in India and China are consuming their stockpiles and sitting out currency volatility in their countries.
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