Commodity Market Report
Global nickel short-term outlook June 2022
Report summary
Nickel prices fall back steeply on economic concerns stemming from rising inflation, interest rates and energy costs. At the same time stainless markets in China and Europe are weaker, prices are falling and orders have dried up. In China, the anticipated demand rebound after the recent Covid outbreak has not happened while in Europe, with the summer break looming, an improvement is now unlikely before September.
Table of contents
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Nickel in stainless
- Asia
- China
- Europe
- Latin America
- Nickel in battery materials
- Appendix - Data Tables
Tables and charts
This report includes 12 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)
- EU27 imports of stainless steel flat products - surge from Asia in Q1 2022
- Finished steel capacity utilisation at Timoteo
- Rolled steel production at Timoteo
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