Commodity Market Report
Global nickel short-term outlook May 2019
Report summary
Nickel sentiment has turned bearish. Prices are falling and risks are mostly on the downside. Concerns mount about the fraught trade relations between China and the USA. China may cut stainless production due to lower prices and record high stocks. Yet expanding Chinese NPI is boosting global supply. The net effect of this weaker demand and stronger supply is that 2019 may end with a small surplus.
Table of contents
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Asia
- China
- Japan
- Europe
- North America
Tables and charts
This report includes 14 images and tables including:
- 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)
- Kambalda mill production (capacity 1.6 Mtpa, ca. 35-40 ktpa nickel in concentrates, grading 13% Ni)
- 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)
- Behai Chengde: theoretical increase in internal scrap ratio
- Top 10 Chinese stainless steel producers (ranked on2019)
- Chinese stainless production share by company
- Japanese stainless: domestic and export sales
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