Global lead short-term outlook April 2023
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Report summary
Table of contents
- Market Developments
- Global
- Asia
- India
- China
- Europe
- Germany
- Turkey
- North America.
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USA
- Concentrate market
- Mines news
- Smelter news
Tables and charts
This report includes 19 images and tables including:
- Steady lead stays in the middle of the pack
- Leads Backwardation back where it started the month
- Cancelled warants fal below 10%
- Refined Lead Premia and Scrap Prices
- Price forecasts and global quarterly supply/demand balances (kt)
- Battery electric vehicle share of Chinese New Energy Vehicle market
- Quarterly Consumption
- Acid prices since September have not made cuts in TCs more palatable
- TCs have been slow to lift despite a persistent LME/SHE arbitrage that widened further in April
- Concentrate market TCs
- China's concentrate imports in March fell back from their January-February spike
- Lead mine capability, market adjustment and production (kt Pb)
- Global refined lead consumption (kt Pb)
- Global lead mine production (lead in concentrate, kt Pb)
- Global refined lead production (kt Pb)
- Global primary and secondary refined lead production (kt Pb)
- Lead stocks, prices and premia
- Global lead supply and demand (kt)
What's included
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