The HBIS Group, or Hebei Iron and Steel, paid about 200 million yuan ($29 million) to Vale, the largest producer and exporter of iron in the world, earlier this week.

North China's Shanxi Province recorded 144.69 billion yuan (about 20.75 billion U.S. dollars) in imports and exports in 2019, up 5.7 percent from the previous year, local customs authorities said Tuesday.

EUROFER announced that real steel consumption in EU fell by 1.6% YoY in the third quarter of 2019 and stood at 38.5 million tonnes.

HBIS released ferrosilicon 72# tender price of February as 6900 yuan per ton, an increase of 750 yuan per ton on January, and the tender volume was 1050 tons, down by 863 tons vs. the last month.

Ferrosilicon tender notice of February, 2020 (2020/14/02).

Ferrosilicon futures 2005 contract close at 5832 on Friday February 14.

Nickel price trend on February 13th

ferro-alloys.com:Chinese Ferrochrome Spot Market Price 13 February 2020