"The trend is for prices to gradually dip down but the path will be really bumpy," Liao said.

The blast furnace has a capacity of 1.3 million crude steel/year and the stoppage will at least be for four-six weeks.

An increase on the tariff on Turkish steel to 50% was announced by Trump via Twitter, but never officially implemented.

Ryzhenkov said he is in discussions with the Ukrainian government on a new law.

"we do not expect growing foreign demand for US coal to supplant weaker domestic demand or reverse the industry's decline."

In the PRB, Arch expects reduced volumes and higher unit costs in Q4.

NORILSK NICKEL GROUP ANNOUNCES PRELIMINARY CONSOLIDATED PRODUCTION RESULTS FOR NINE MONTHS 2019

Export prices for Chinese cold-rolled coil and hot-dipped galvanized coil were unchanged over the past week.