Silicon Manganese prices rose in European market on second half of December, 2014. Market players were paying more attention to Brazil’s energy crisis

The market trend of import of ferroalloy as of 15 December 2014 is as follows.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]LME nickel price continued to fall on Thursday, Dec 18. The price began to dip sharply after an opening rise during Asian trading hours. The price almost offset the falling in the European trading hours, and the price kept relatively stable i...

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Chinese APT was offered at RMB131,000-132,000/mt (USD21,475-21,639/mt, export duty excluded), following its W concentrates cost. Many suppliers received little order, as downstream market was sluggish.

[Ferro-Alloys.com]Chinese W concentrates was offered at RMB79,000-80,000/mt (USD12,950-13,114/mt, export duty excluded), but transaction volumes were slim.

Market Prices of Ferrosilicon Showed an Upturn only in Q3 of 2014 in China

Export market of silicon metal price kept weak in late December in China. Christmas holiday was coming and silicon metal foreign orders were few, said traders.

In the manganese triangle area, mainstream ex-work price of manganese flake decreased to RMB11800-12000/mt (USD1903-1935/mt).