[Ferro-Alloys.com]Overseas moly oxide price edged down, as the buying activities decreased a bit. Moly oxide price transacted at USD9.3-9.4/lbMo.

[Ferro-Alloys.com] In recent period, ongoing flat demand aggravated shutdown for non-standard silicon manganese factories in Guangxi and Hunan of China.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Production rate for ferrochrome fell down due to the increase of power prices with the return of dry season in Sichuan. The production rate fell to 50-60% in November, said one of the largest ferrochrome producers in this province.

In Oct., capacity release in most FeNi producing areas of China declined. In addition, the situation was not changed in Nov.. As the weak condition of nickel and stainless steel market had last for a long time, the steel mills did not have much raw material st...

Entering Nov., medium and low grade nickel ores production basically stopped. Adding to the unstable nickel price, many importers of China stopped the operation. Now as many FeNi enterprises cut down the production, the purchase for nickel ores was not active....

Ferro-Alloys.com]In recent period, operation rates of manganese alloy surrounding Beijing on the decline slightly due to environment protection for APEC meeting, which produces negative impact on ore sale market. In fact, given large alloys companies already e...

As HBIS successfully further cut for November purchase on manganese alloy, it seems that other steelmills in China tend to follow with falling bidding price. However, as lowering operation rates in south areas to aggravate, some steel mills are worrying about ...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Ganzhou Tungsten Association issued that APT indication floor price for November was RMB152,000/mt (USD24,918/mt, export duty excluded), down RMB8,000/mt (USD1,311/mt, export duty excluded).