Commodity Market Report
Global nickel short-term outlook April 2023
*Please note that this report only includes an Excel data file if this is indicated in "What's included" below
Report summary
A few days of over-active trading sent nickel prices up in the third week of April despite a large global surplus. Equally, the economic rebound in China is taking its time to get going and both stainless and battery segments there are suffering. It's no better in the west. But dig into the detail and it is clear that whatever the excesses of NPI production are in China and Indonesia, Class I metal supply is tight everywhere else.
Table of contents
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Nickel in stainless
- Asia
- China
- Indonesia
- Europe
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Nickel in non-stainless
- Battery raw materials
- Aerospace
- Appendix - Data Tables
Tables and charts
This report includes 13 images and tables including:
- Quarterly global refined nickel consumption (kt)
- Quarterly global stainless steel production (kt raw steel basis)
- Global refined nickel consumption (kt)
- Global stainless steel production (kt raw steel basis)
- Global nickel mine production/capability (kt)
- Global nickel smelter production/capability (kt)
- Global finished nickel production/capability (kt)
- Nickel stocks and premiums
- Global refined nickel supply-demand balance (kt)
- Indonesian stainless slab exports by destination
- Impact of imports of stainless from Indonesia on Taiwan's stainless melt output
- Aircraft deliveries
- Nickel supply and offtake deals
What's included
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