Yingli Green Energy Holding Co. (YGE) led a weekly decline among the most-traded Chinese solar manufacturers in New York on concern their profits will be hurt as the U.S. seeks to curb imports.

China's securities watchdog has approved the listing of ferroalloy futures on the Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange (ZCE) in Henan Province.

In Aug., the FeCr benchmark price was further cut down by RMB50/mt for large supply. And the suppliers had already reduced their ex-works price.

At the end of July, the nickel ores trading was still not optimistic as the buyers in Chinese market tried to pressure the price while the sellers held the price for rise.

In recent two months, the high FeNi operating rates was low and meanwhile many producers held the stock. However, the total supply in Chinese market was still high, and the main reason was that many steel mills cut down the purchasing volume.

This week both the spot and futures of Cr ores kept stable and the stock at Chinese main ports maintained low level. Affected by the high FeCr operating rate in North areas,

Chinese calcium silicon market kept stable in August. Meanwhile, the calcium silicon export market in China was still depressed with widened price gap.

It’s reported that South African ferrochrome suppliers are offering 127 cents/lb for buyers in Japan for the third quarter, down by 3 cents/lb from the previous offering.