[Ferro-Alloys.com]China imported 138647 tonnes of chrome ores in Nov 2014, down 22.6% over the previous month. In Jan-Nov 2014, China's import of chrome ores totaled 8665381 tonnes, down 21.78% over the same period of 2013.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Chinese feMo was offered at RMB85,000-86,000/mt (USD13,934-14,098/mt, export duty excluded) by acceptance.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Approaching the Christmas holidays, many European and American customers quitted the market, preparing for Christmas holidays.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Dec 15-19, LME nickel price took a sharp fall with a week high at 16860 and low at 15200, closing at 15600, down 6.45% during the week. The price continued to fall in the first four days of the week,

[Ferro-Alloys.com]The spot prices of China’s chrome ores remained stable last week under the support of rising ferrochrome prices in Dec 2014. However, China’s import tariff of high-carbon ferrochrome turned to 0 in 2015,

[Ferro-Alloys.com]China’s high-carbon ferrochrome prices remained stable last week with a little tight supply, and it is expected that the prices would keep the same level in Jan 2015. According to the official documents, China’s export tariff of ferrochrome...

The continuous weakness of LME Ni once again aroused the pessimistic mood of the participant ants, especially the traders and the steel mills. For FeNi manufactures, most of them still chose to hold the stock for the high nickel ores cost

Even though the demand for medium and high grade nickel ores from FeNi producers was still high, the weak LME Ni price made the buyers hesitate to buy the materials.