Here are five Fastmarkets MB stories you might have missed on Thursday June 20 that are worth another look.
The London Metal Exchange has just
finished its trial to calculate nickel prices using a volume-weighted average price method on the exchange's electronic trading platform.
China will only permit
240,429 tonnes of copper scrap imports in the entire third quarter of 2019, sending panic across the local scrap industry, according to an official list of Chinese importers granted import quotas, seen by Fastmarkets on Thursday June 20.
Metals trader Trafigura has
refuted claims from Iceberg Research, the analytics outfit that launched an explosive campaign against Noble Group, that it has overvalued "hundreds of millions [of dollars] in debt securities issued by an associate."
United States-based iron ore producer
Cleveland-Cliffs is prepared to export part of its iron ore output in the event that more furnaces are shut down in the country, its chairman and chief executive officer Louren??o Gon??alves said on Wednesday.
Pilbara Minerals will restrict its lithium production in June and July due to reduced demand in the second quarter of 2019 caused by delays in the commissioning of chemical conversion capacity by the company's key offtake partners in China.