Commodity Market Report
Global aluminium short-term outlook March 2018
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Report summary
The aluminium market service short term outlook (STO) is published monthly and provides a forecast of aluminium supply and demand fundamentals over the next two-years. The LME aluminium price tumbled towards $2000/t in March having hit a multi-year high in mid February at $2266/t. Rising global trade tensions, the continued build in SHFE stocks and a likely resumption of Chinese output growth following the winter cuts weighed heavily on market sentiment.
Table of contents
- Manufacturing activity in all major economies in growth mode for now
- Global benchmark premia
- China
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Asia ex-China
- Japan
- Japanese semis output
- South Korea
- Thailand
- North America
- US
- Europe
- Summary of February production, kt
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Alumina Market Developments
- Changes in global SGA production estimates since February, (kt)
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- A more pronounced global slowdown becoming a major risk
- Global supply-demand balance, 2011-2020
- SHFE stocks moving higher despite smelter cutbacks and decent demand growth
- LME cash-price and cash-three month spreads
- Sharp divergence between the official NBS and Caixin PMI's
- China's EV output jumps spectacularly in early 2018, but from a low 2017 base
- Rising land sales in 2017 could pose upside risk to the real estate sector
- Rest of World alumina balances, China imports and Spot prices, 2017-2020, (kt)
- Japanese housing starts plunge
- South Korea plate, sheet and strip imports
- 13 more item(s)...
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