A high backwardation continued to dampen import appetite, leading to thin liquidity, although offers were quoted higher.

The problem is that there are more than 13m tons of HRC capacity coming online or planned to come online in the next three years.

Most of the capital goods in China posted lower prices in late October compared with mid-October, official data showed Friday.

At present, of the 17,244 tonnes of on-warrant nickel in LME warehouses in Rotterdam, briquette accounts for more than 92%.

Earlier this year, the association had forecast steel demand to drop by 1.7% in 2022.

The sentiment for finished steel prices continued to slide as the November scrap buy week was underway, according to the most recent S&P Global Commodity Insights US steel market participant survey.

Fastmarkets sources continued to insist that prices were in parity, as rare as the phenomenon is.

The Ferrosilicon Futures rose straightly this week.