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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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China’s domestic spot battery-grade lithium carbonate and hydroxide prices were unchanged this week as they have been through January due to thin buying activity, and the market became even quieter in the run-up to the Lunar New Year holidays that started on Friday January 24.
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Trade log for battery-grade lithium carbonate in China including trades, bids and offers reported to Fastmarkets.
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Key data from the graphite pricing sessions in Asia and Europe for the week ended Thursday January 23.
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Antimony trioxide prices in Europe have ticked upward, tracking Chinese prices higher despite a dearth of new deals.
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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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Fastmarkets proposes changes to the specification of three titanium dioxide prices.
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Fastmarkets proposes to launch a new barite price: barite, SG 3.8, unground lump, bulk, ex-mine Mexico, $/tonne
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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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Key data from the graphite pricing sessions in Asia and Europe for the week ended Thursday January 16.
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All battery-grade lithium compound prices were steady week on week on Thursday January 16, with market activity thinning in Asia ahead of the Chinese New Year holidays while renewed demand supported prices in Europe and the United States.
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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 appreciation of the Chinese yuan against the US dollar is adding pressure to the quiet markets for fused alumina and bauxite before the Chinese new year holiday period.
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Previous weakness in the Chinese battery-grade lithium markets travelled through into the seaborne lithium hydroxide market which fell by 4.7% week on week on Thursday January 9, while the delivered, duty-paid Europe and United States compound prices both fell on the availability of cheaper spot material.
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Key data from the graphite pricing sessions in Asia and Europe for the week ended Thursday January 9, 2020.
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The Chinese government has canceled official customs commodity inspections on magnesia, thereby simplifying export procedures.
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Bearish market sentiment in the end-markets for refractories continued to dent silicon carbide prices.
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Global lithium prices were stable in the week to Thursday January 2 due to thin trading because many market participants are still away for the New Year holiday.
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Key data from the graphite pricing sessions in Asia and Europe for the week ended Thursday January 2, 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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After prices to Europe fell a month ago, the acidspar price out of South Africa followed suit as buyers continue to negotiate discounts against last year's contract prices.
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Key data from the graphite pricing sessions in Asia and Europe for the week ended Thursday December 26
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Trade log for battery-grade lithium carbonate in China including trades, bids and offers reported to Fastmarkets.
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Fused alumina production suspensions have become a common occurrence in China’s Henan province, due to the region’s deteriorating air quality in winter.
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Availability could have dropped slightly for 2019 after last year's strong production, while demand in main consuming markets has softened because of the weak performance across refractories.
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A lack of trading activity in the lithium market led Chinese producers to lower their sales prices ahead of the year-end break, and China’s domestic lithium carbonate market dropped by 4% on Thursday December 19, while in Europe and the United States prices were unchanged.
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All Fastmarkets prices and premiums due to be published at 4pm London time on Thursday December 19 were delayed due to a technical error.
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Overcapacity in China’s magnesia sector and shrinking international demand have roiled the domestic market this year, dragging prices to a two-year low and prompting producers to lower output.
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Any oversupply in the end markets could well continue for the medium-term given that the fluorochemical producers will maximize output over the next two years, in line with government legislation.
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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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Cheap alumina powder feedstock continues to favour lower offer prices for WFA, while weak demand and uncertainty over availability during China’s winter season support BFA and bauxite.
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China’s domestic lithium carbonate price weakened in the week to Thursday December 12, while the rest of the world’s battery-grade lithium prices held steady due to thin buying activities on the spot market.
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Key data from the graphite pricing sessions in Asia and Europe for the week ending on Thursday December 12.
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Amid muted demand, environmental crackdowns and increasingly short supply of high-grade feedstock, producers are seeking changes to their operations in Henan province, a production hub for brown fused alumina (BFA).
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China’s exports of fluorspar fell in October, with lower average prices, the result of falling domestic prices and shrinking demand from downstream markets.
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The pace of decline in the Chinese domestic battery grade lithium carbonate price has accelerated entering December with increasingly lower offer prices in the spot market from Chinese producers eager to destock in the week ended Thursday December 5.
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Key data from the graphite pricing sessions in Asia and Europe for the week ending on Thursday December 5.
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The prices for non-metallurgical grades of chromite ticked downward over the past week with the number of business inquiries limited by persistent oversupply and stock volumes boosted by earlier purchases.
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Chinese exports of dead burned magnesia and fused magnesia slumped in October from the same month of 2018 due to lower demand but caustic calcined magnesia exports rose slightly.
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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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Buyers are looking to secure lower 2020 prices after a downtrend n 2019 lasting 11 months - a trend that remained in place at the end of November.
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Fastmarkets assessed all main grades of both brown and white fused alumina lower as well as the prices of 86% and 88% calcined bauxite.
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A standoff over acidspar prices between producers and consumers has been ended by two contracts settled on a cif Rotterdam basis that have pushed the price to its lowest for more than a year.
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Key data from the graphite pricing sessions in Asia and Europe for the week ending on Thursday November 28.
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Trade log for battery-grade lithium carbonate in China including trades, bids and offers reported to Fastmarkets.
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The Fastmarkets holiday pricing schedule has been updated to reflect the official announcement of public holidays in China for 2020.
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Weak demand and good feedstock availability weigh on antimony dioxide prices in the United States.
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Contraction was evident in November’s price assessments for both abrasive and refractory grades of silicon carbide, although the main drop was in the latter, because of sluggish end-market conditions.
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China’s domestic and the cif China, Japan and Korea battery-grade lithium compound prices all fell to fresh 2019 lows on Thursday November 21, which market participants attributed to subdued downstream demand and a negative short-term outlook.
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Key data from the graphite pricing sessions in Asia and Europe for the week ending on Thursday November 21.
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