Global lead short-term outlook August 2017
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Report summary
Table of contents
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Executive summary
- Lead key forecasts
- Supply-demand balances
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Demand
- China
- North America
- Europe
- Japan
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Korea
- Global quarterly refined lead consumption (kt)
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Supply
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Raw materials market
- Concentrate market TCs
- Mine production news
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Smelter production news
- Global refined lead consumption (kt Pb)
- Global lead mine production (Lead in Concentrate)
- 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)
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Raw materials market
Tables and charts
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- Lead price little changed as other LME metals gain value
- Some decoupling of lead price and dollar value as supply concerns prompt small spike
- Tightening lead mine supply has increased Chinese imports of North Korean concentrates
- Price spread contango remains steady
- Falling SHFE stocks points to refined lead supply worries
- Chinese refined lead imports now running at annualised 100kt
- Total LME lead stocks stabilise for the moment, but cancelled warrants increase
- Outflows of LME lead from warehouses reduces in quantity and frequency
- Supply-demand balances: Table 1
- Supply-demand balances: Table 2
- Executive summary: Table 1
- Chinese car production back into year-on-year growth
- 10 more item(s)...
What's included
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