Commodity Market Report
Lithium global short-term outlook February 2023
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Report summary
Lithium spot prices have started to decrease. Some of the contributing factors include: * Slowdown in the Chinese market associated with the early Lunar New Year * Plateauing EV sales and cathode production in China towards the end of 2022 * Continued growth in supply We expect to see contract prices increase in the short-term due to the lag effect built into the majority of contracts for lithium chemicals.
Table of contents
- Current prices
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Price outlook
- Lithium carbonate
- Resources
- Refining
- China market
Tables and charts
This report includes the following images and tables:
- Quarterly lithium carbonate price forecast, USD/t CIF excluding VAT, nominal
- Quarterly lithium hydroxide price forecast, USD/t CIF excluding VAT, nominal
- Quarterly spodumene concentrate price forecast, USD/t CIF excluding VAT, nominal
- Electric vehicle sales by region, thousands of vehicles
- Cathode demand by type, kt
- Lithium demand by cathode chemistry, t LCE
- Lithium demand by product, kt LCE
- Lithium chemical supply outlook by product, kt LCE
- Chinese lithium carbonate imports
- Lithium carbonate
- Lithium hydroxide
- Lithium carbonate
- 2 more item(s)...
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