Global zinc short-term outlook September 2020
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Report summary
Table of contents
- Market Developments
- Global
- China
- Japan
- Concentrate market
- Mine production
- Mine production news
- Smelter production
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- Exchange stocks have accumulated in Asia and the US
- Sustained tightness in the concentrate market is forcing spot TCs lower
- The inverse correlation between the US dollar and the zinc price is at its strongest since mid-2012
- Will the dollar or zinc's fundamentals be the dominant influence on the zinc price?
- Price forecasts and global quarterly supply and demand balance
- Global trade rebounds, but volumes have yet to recover to pre-crisis levels
- Brazil has a surprisingly strong recovery
- Forecasts for China and Europe have been revised upwards
- Global consumption to fall by 6% in 2020
- Heavy equipment usage shows Chinese construction is back to normal
- Japanese automotive production and sales plunge
- Key indicators of zinc consumption
- Treatment charges $/t of concentrate
- Chinese concentrate imports (kt gross weight concentrate)
- Quarterly global concentrate balances
- Concentrate balances
- Zinc mine capability, market adjustment and production (kt Zn)
- Changes in China’s resource tax rates for zinc and lead
- Global zinc consumption - (kt Zn)
- Global zinc mine production (kt Zn)
- Global zinc smelter production (kt Zn)
- Zinc stocks, prices and premiums
- Chinese trade data (kt)
- Global slab zinc supply/demand balance (kt)
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