Chinese ferro-silicon prices continued their steady performance amid firmer steel prices and export market stable in China.

Murray Energy is the latest to join a string of coal companies.

CISA data showed their member companies have seen a 32 percent drop in profits.

An increase on the tariff on Turkish steel to 50% was announced by Trump via Twitter, but never officially implemented.

The blast furnace has a capacity of 1.3 million crude steel/year and the stoppage will at least be for four-six weeks.

"The trend is for prices to gradually dip down but the path will be really bumpy," Liao said.

Ryzhenkov said he is in discussions with the Ukrainian government on a new law.

In the PRB, Arch expects reduced volumes and higher unit costs in Q4.