The Chinese silicon export market continued to remain stable week on week for the third consecutive week.

The concentrate and pellet segments of the seaborne iron ore market continued to experience lackluster trading last week.

The energy sector will play a major role in bolstering steel plate prices in the remaining months of 2019...

European trading has been quiet although there are signs that the market may be establishing a price floor after months of steady price losses.

A total of 2.105 million tonnes of the contract were traded, compared with 954,000 tonnes in June.

The weekly Fastmarkets price assessment for steel slab export, fob main port Brazil was $425-435 per tonne last Friday August 2.

European trading has been quiet although there are signs that the market may be establishing a price floor after months of steady price losses.

Top 20 positions increased and decreased varied, the purchase volume is more than the holding position.