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Global nickel short-term outlook July 2019

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Nickel prices lit up in July, reaching their highest level for a year, largely due to speculation, which also helped to sustain the recent transfer of nickel stock to China. Physical demand in Asia also exerted some influence on prices. The challenges to Tsingshan Indonesia are starting to mount up now that India is considering anti-dumping duties against Indonesian stainless. Indeed the future of all stainless projects in Indonesia is becoming questionable.

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Tables and charts

This report includes 13 images and tables including:

  • Chinese 300 series stainless inventory and melt production
  • Indian imports of stainless steel flat products
  • Indian imports of stainless steel flat products
  • Taiwan: increasing scrap ratio and rising FeNi inventory
  • Global quarterly refined 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)

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