Greece and its international lenders want the country's banks to complete their recapitalisation by the end of this year, the country's finance minister said on Wednesday after talks with creditor representatives.

Overall economic situation affected the market of commodities. Since entering 2012, steel mills underperformed. Issues such as closing down outdated facilities became dire needs for the industry. As cored wires had became an irreplaceable raw materials for st...

Mineral Resources Minister Ngoako Ramatlhodi says international mining giant Glencore should have looked at alternatives to retrenchments, including shifting workers to vacancies in other operations, before considering the potential retrenchment of about 1 000...

Struggling from weak demand and facing new rules to clean up pollution, some firms in China's top steel producing city have scaled back production or even closed completely, lifting local steel prices off 20-year lows.

Nearly all of the Indian imported calcium silicon is sourced from China. In July, 2015, the imported price of calcium silicon price maintained stable at USD1750-1770/mt CIF. However, there were some transactions at USD1,660-1,680/mt CIF.

Nearly all of Indian imported SILICON BARIUM is sourced from China. In the beginning of August, the ferro silicon barium inoculant (size 2-6mm, 90% min) was USD1530-1540/mt compared to USD1530-1550/mt in the beginning of July and USD1520-1530/mt in the beginni...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Chinese FeV was offered at RMB61,000-62,000/mt by acceptance. Steel mill’s tenders ended, but the transactions got worse. The transaction price was confirmed to drop to RMB57,000/mt by acceptance.

At the backdrop of steel output cut, the market of steel-used cored wires remained sluggish. Market of nodulizer cored wires underperformed as Chinese economy entered “new normal” phase which features low growth.