Japan's coking coal imports rose in July on the back of a recovery in steel output, mainly from auto manufacturing demand.

LME nickel price trend on September 4th

Nickel ore market weekly comment(August 31st-September 4th): The prices of Laterite-Nickel ore rose up in this week

Ferronickel market weekly comment(August 31st-September 4th) The price of high grade ferronickel price went up in this week

Electrolytic nickel market weekly comment(August 31st-September 4th) LME nickel price was not steady in general , so was the electrolytic nickel price

LME nickel price trend on September 3rd

For the period from April to June, Baosteel earned 2.47 billion yuan, a jump of 60.6% from the first quarter, but still well below net profit of 3.46 billion yuan in the year-earlier period.

Vietnam spent more than 5.6 billion U.S. dollars importing over 9.7 million tons of steel and iron in the first eight months of this year.