Dalian iron ore falls on feebler steel prices

On Monday around 1% Chinese iron ore futures has fallen as the prices of steel recoiled and steelmaking raw materials stockpiles at the port of China gushed to greatest levels. On Friday, Iron ore kept at the main ports of China reached 161.98 million tonnes (MT). Last week it got up 1.4 MT, data gathered and presented by Steel Home consultancy. In the present year, 9% inventories have increased.

According to a Shanghai-based trader, restrictions have been imposed by few cities Hebei and Jiangsu provinces in China on industrial production that also includes steel mills to combat smog which somehow is distressing the drawdown of iron ore at ports of China. These disruptions in the production have devastated ability of mills to carry cargoes from the ports.

After previous falling of the maximum traded iron ore as far as 455.50 yuan, the Dalian Commodity Exchange for September delivery had fallen 0.8% at 461 yuan i.e. $ 72 a tonne. On Friday, the spot iron ore for delivery to Qingdao port of China IO62-CNO=MBO raised about one-week high of $66.16 a tonne. The standard of spot prices ended May approximately uniform versus the last month. The manufacturing steel product attained approximately three-month top most of 3788 yuan this Friday.

Coking coal increased 0.4% to 1259 yuan and coke slid 1.1% to 2075.50 yuan a tonne. The highly active rebar on the Shanghai Future Exchange decreased 0.6% at 3718 yuan a tonne.

• [Editor:janita]