[Ferro-Alloys.com] Nickel’s low price in London Metal Exchange (LME) stayed at 8,500-9,000USD/T and in Shanghai Futures Exchange (SHFE) priced at 65,000-70,000USD/T which performs pretty stable before the coming interest rate hike in America. Since November 27th, 2014, nickel opening stock in LME went back to below 300,000t for the first time in December 4th, 2015, which may predicts that nickel market is stepping up to a new balance between supply and demand.

In December 7th, China’s Central Bank announced that the national foreign currency reserve in November plunged to $3.4383-trillion, the lowest since late February 2013. And Chinese gold reserve in November was about $59.5-billion, lower than $63.3-billion in October.

American non-farm jobs increased 211,000 in November, better than expected 200,000 and the department revised upward the October non-farm jobs to 298,000. Additionally, American unemployment in November was reported at 5.0% which meet the expected number. Both results above suggested that the Federal Reserve has erased the last barrier to hike the interest rate for the first time during the past decade.

• [Editor:Juan]