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10.Mar. 2010 According to The World Steel Association, European steel demand will bounce some 20% in 2010 as the global industry recovers, but much of the West's business has been irrevocably lost to the East. The World Steel Association said that European steel demand will bounce some 20% in 2010 as the global industry recovers, but much of the West's business has been irrevocably lost to the

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10. Mar. 2010 Damstahl´s March briefing reports about an increasing demand for stainless steel. To an increasing extent the mills are utilizing their production to an optimum. Our March briefing reports about an increasing demand for stainless steel. To an increasing extent the mills are utilizing their production to an optimum. This is due to an adaption to their production capacity and thus a

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10. Mar. 2010 In China, local PE markets are facing downward pressure as a result of poorer than expected demand and weakening ethylene markets. A major producer in the East reduced their offers for LLDPE film by CNY300/ton ($44/ton) while also cutting their offers for HDPE film by CNY200/ton ($29/ton), citing poor demand and rising stock levels as the reasons for their price decreases. The

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10. Mar. 2010 In Europe, propylene costs have been on a constant firming trend for some time due to the persistent production issues in the region. Although spot propylene values gained further ground last week rising to €950-960/ton FD NWE, finding an extra support also from higher crude hovering above $80/bbl and soaring naphtha prices, competitive PP offers continue to emerge both in Turkey

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10. Mar. 2010 Recent developments in global ethylene markets, which have seen US ethylene prices soaring to new heights and tumbling prices in major Asian markets, have begun to have an impact on spot VCM markets, which are in turn likely to lead to changes in global PVC pricing. In the US, the January and February monthly ethylene contracts were settled at the beginning of March with a

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10. Mar. 2010 China Steel Corp. to raise HRC leeway price Taiwan’s China Steel Corp. (CSC) will release its leeway resources soon and it is estimated that CSC would lift the HRC price by NT$600/ton. Currently, CSC is studying the operation of Leeway and calculating the quantity of HRC, CRC and GI products. With the increasing raw material cost on the international market, how much CSC’s leeway

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10. Mar. 2010 Mar 9 - Tuesday's Prices in rupees per tonne at the Bombay Metal Exchange:                                    Tuesday's  //  Previous Copper wire bars (HCL*) 397,000  //  397,000 Aluminum

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7. Mar. 2010 PRILLED UREA Again as expected, prices have rallied from last week's lows, bolstered by resugent Latin American demand. FSU prills have sold at $282-285pt fob Ukraine while Baltic prices have also gained to $275-277pt fob from the icefree ports. The outllok for balance March is firm. Buyers in Mexico and, to a lesser extent, Brazil have stepped into the market to book over 200,000t

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7 Mar. 2010 Indicator of petrochemicals prices: The indicator of (Argaam), "which measure the prices of basket of petrochemicals products which produced in the gulf region in meddile east", reveal decrease during this week in 4.2 points, to reach at 239.7 points compared with the previous week level of 243.9 points. Worth mentioning that the indicator since six weeks move in the

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5. Mar. 2010 World Scrap- this week, the price of ABS showed upward trend in the upstream petrochemical industry, foreign quotation was somewhat down. Businesses increased watching intention. The price of ABS scrap was basically stable in the market by the cost of support, some offer advanced. The market supply of goods was in good condition, high-quality materials were more susceptible to

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5. Mar. 2010 In Italy, there are price hikes of up to €75/ton sought in the PP market both for spot business and gentlemen's agreements. Sellers are justifying their large hike targets for another month by mainly pointing to the €35/ton higher settlement of the monthly propylene contract. They also need to improve margins amidst tight propylene availability, they argue. However, buyers who

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5. Mar. 2010 Aluminum producers cut the fee they charge Japanese buyers for the first time in a year as supply in Asia increased after Middle Eastern smelters began production and China restarted idled capacity. Premiums for the three months ending June 30 have been set at $122 a metric ton over the London cash price in transactions agreed so far, down from $125 to $130 this quarter, said three

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5. Mar. 2010 Saudi Aramco identified propane price in March with 730usd per tonne, down in 5usd compared to February. The company also identified a butane price in March with 715usd per ton down 20 dollars compared to February. Not that the prices of propane & butane are act as measurement prices in Middle East for the price of LPG. Butane and propane&

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4. Mar. 2010 * Dollar strengthens against euro after ECB comments. * Chile supply fears subside. * LME copper stocks fall. LONDON, March 4 - Copper fell on Thursday, as investors fretted demand was cooling in China and was still weak in the OECD, while dollar strength deterred non-U.S. investors. Benchmark copper for three-month delivery CMCU3 on the London Metal Exchange was at $7,448 a

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4. Mar. 2010 Asia’s import price of scrap kept increasing. The latest import price for No1 and No2 mixed scrap (80:20) from America to Taiwan was quoted at US$385/ton, increased by US$10/ton as compared with last week. The export price to Vietnam was at CFR US$390/ton. And the price to other East Asia countries and areas was at CFR US$380 – US$385/ton. [Yieh news]

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4. Mar. 2010 Mar 4 - Thursday's Prices in rupees per tonne at the Bombay Metal Exchange:                                   Thursday's  //  Previous Copper wire bars (HCL*) 395,000  //  394,000 Aluminum ingots&

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28. Feb. 2010 PRILLED UREA FSU prices have remained under pressure this week but there are now clear signs the fall is almost over. Turkish buyers have entered the market to book product at $275pt fob after battling to obtain lower levels. A price recovery is expected in March. Despite the recent negativity, at presstime there were clear signs that the prilled market had bottomed out. a sale

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28. Feb. 2010 Indicator of petrochemicals prices: The indicator of (Argaam), "which measure the prices of basket of petrochemicals products which produced in the gulf region in meddile east", reveal slightly increasing during this week in 2 points, to reach at 243.9 points compared with the previous week level of 241.9 points. This is the fifth week in which the indicator move in a

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27. Feb. 2010 Lithium and China Over the last decade, China has led the world in battery exports for laptop computers, cell phones, and other electronic devices. In China there are hundreds of companies, both small and large, that are involved in development of Ni-MH, lead-acid, and lithium-ion batteries. In the past 3 to 4 years, many multinational companies have brought advanced battery

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27. Feb. 2010 We've seen headlines all over asking who is the next Greece? Will Greece take the rest of the PIGS (Spain, Portugal, and Ireland) with it? This may very well happen, but if we are talking about sovereign risk, one should definitely keep an eye out for Japan. ContrarianEdge has an interesting research piece on Japan. The Japanse budget deficit is growin; As we know, governments

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27. Feb. 2010 Global crude stainless steel production for 2009 is expected to total 24.7 million tonnes. This corresponds to a decline of 4.6 percent from the result in the previous calendar year. MEPS' forecast for the outturn in 2010 is 28 million tonnes - just 0.2 million tonnes shy of the all-time high achieved in 2006. However, this does not represent equally good news for producers in all

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27. Feb. 2010 The price of American 80:20 container scrap to Taiwan has climbed to US$380/ton and could go up to US$390/ton in recent days. The main reason of price rise is because tight supply of global scrap and blizzard in America. According to traders, they believe the price still has a chance to hike and the new quotation should be certain recently. [Yieh news]

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27. Feb. 2010 Qatar's two liquefied natural gas (LNG) producers Qatargas and RasGas have approved a US$1 billion project to capture gas that is currently burnt off when ships load LNG, they said in a statement. The project would recover gas that was equivalent to around 600,000 tons of LNG, enough to power more than 40,000 homes, the companies said in the statement. The gas is currently burnt

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27. Feb. 2010 Japanese government said that Kuwait’s crude oil exports to Japan fell 24.9% in January 2010 from a year earlier to 7.74 million barrels, or 250,000 bpd, for the second consecutive monthly drop. Kuwait supplied 6.1% of nation’s crude oil in January 2010, compared with 8.8% in January 2009 and 7.7% in December 2009, the Japanese Natural Resources and Energy Agency, a unit of the

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27. Feb. 2010 Amir Al Aidarous, The Yemeni Minister of Petroleum and Mining, has held a meeting with a delegation from Russian Gazprom to discuss room for potential cooperation in the field of exploration in Yemen's petroleum sector. The minister expressed his optimism in future cooperation with the Russian company saying that its vast experience will prove beneficial in developing the

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