[Ferro-Alloys.com] As Chinese steelmakers kept lowering bidding, low carbon ferromanganese producers suffered great pressure with fewer of them actively giving offer. More than that, some of suppliers insist on holding price steady despite downturn purchase f...

Affected by the Indonesian policy, the nickel price had already cumulative gains 50% since early of 2014.The main downstream industry-stainless steel suffered much due to the rising cost.

[Ferro-Alloys.com] It seems that high carbon ferromanganese market kept tumbling as steel mills further cut May purchase. Meanwhile, the rise in the price of medium carbon ferromanganese was also very limit despite suppliers hold strong desire to further lift ...

Affected by the Indonesian policy and the Ukraine situation, the nickel price had already increased by 50% since mid-Mar. This change brought much pressure to the steel mills for the rising cost while the stainless steel price was pulled up.

Magnesium prices were expected to remain stable in mid May in China.

Ferrosilicon furnaces of 12,500KVA and 20,000KVA suffered, which involved 13 sets and 136,000 mt.

This week, Si products were still in tight supply on spot market. Most orders kept producing based on the orders and there were few inventories to buy.

CaSi transaction had less change on spot market. Most orders were from old clients and there were few new orders to get. In terms of production,