China's July inflation was within market expectation, indicating little inflationary pressure for China in the second half year, HSBC chief China economist Qu Hongbin said on Sunday (Aug 10th).

Cold-rolled strip steel price was still low. In Hebei and Shandong province, the major production areas of cored wire strip steel, mainstream ex-work price

along with the production cuts of stainless steel mills and foundries in summer, high carbon ferrochrome transaction in Chinese market loosened. at early of Aug., the total operating rate of the HC FeCr declined for poor market situation. however, several larg...

Metallurgical Si metal prices continued to decline while chemical Si metal prices remained firm in early August in China. As low grade Si metal prices kept declining, foreign dealers took sideline attitude toward purchases. Power price was much lower in high-w...

Editor of www.ferro-alloys.com learnt producers slightly lowered theitr quotations this week due to depressed demand and increased spot materials in China. Mainstream Shaanxi Mg99.90% price declined to

his week there was few bids of ferrosilicon for August delivery in China. The main tone of August bids for ferrosilicon was that most steel mills raised RMB50/mt on July purchase prices, which helped some ferrosilicon producers raise their quotations.

[Ferro-Alloys.com] In recent period, it seems that imported manganese ore spot prices in China still maintained flat. In fact, high cost but low sale already put market into standstill situation.

[Ferro-Alloys.com] It seemed that the tendencies of manganese alloy during August already become more clearly.as the new round tender for Chinese steelmills settled.