Stainless Espresso: Where are the sharp price falls on the steel market?

Jun 8, 2021 | Stainless Espresso

The media are quick to sound a swan song for the commodity and steel markets these days. “Sharp price drops, high volatility, steel exports from China collapse.” Is any of this real? Often, a closer look reveals only a blatant ignorance of the market on...

Stainless Espresso: What you really want to know on Monday

Jun 7, 2021 | Stainless Espresso

A new week has begun. That’s when the eyes first turn to what you really need to know. What are the base metals doing, where does nickel stand, what are stainless steel prices doing and what else could be in store this week. Read that now in a nutshell in your...

Stainless Espresso: Serious EU stainless steel shortage and no Safeguard decision yet

Jun 5, 2021 | Stainless Espresso, Uncategorized

Since 2020, there has been an increasingly severe shortage of steel and stainless steel in Europe and the United States. And there is still no relief for the threatened steel processing industry. Serious steel and stainless steel shortages in Europe Since fall 2020,...

Stainless Espresso: EU Safeguards before their end?

Jun 4, 2021 | Stainless Espresso

After a short setback on Thursday, June 3, 2021, the nickel has stabilized again today. And all the world is looking tensed to Brussels: has the end of EU Safeguards come? There is a possibility that there will be an update today. Data, facts, figures: US labor market...

Stainless Espresso: Nickel inventories on LME and SHFE decreased

Jun 3, 2021 | Stainless Espresso

Nickel inventories decreased on LME and SHFE. Fitch Ratings has raised its long-term nickel price forecast. And Russia is thinking aloud about increasing MET taxes for metal producers. Facts, figures, data: Nickel inventories fall For 12 days now, stocks for the...