The inventory of rebar across Chinese steelmakers and social warehouses stood at 5.62 million mt as of December 9, down 532,000 mt or 8.6% from a week earlier. Stocks are down 569,600 mt or 9.2% from a year earlier.

China imported 91.61 million mt of iron ore and its concentrate in October, a decrease of 4.2% from the previous month and a year-on-year decrease of 14.1%, according to the online query platform for customs statistics.

The inventory of rebar across Chinese steel makers and social warehouses stood at 7.64 million mt as of November 11, down 261,800 mt or 3.3% from a week earlier. Stocks are 90,900 mt or 1.2% higher from a year earlier.

The inventory of rebar across Chinese steel makers and social warehouses stood at 7.9 million mt as of November 4, down 36,400 mt or 0.5% from a week earlier. Stocks are down 569,700 mt or 6.7% from a year earlier.

Vale generated cash flow of $7.765 billion in the third quarter, an increase of $1.238 billion from the second quarter, according to the third-quarter financial performance report issued on October 28.

The "three red lines” refers to the 70% ceiling on liabilities to assets after excluding advance proceeds from projects sold on contract, 100% cap on net debt to equity, and cash to short-term borrowing ratio of at least one. One year after the introduction of the policy, the average asset-liability ratio and the average asset-liability ratio after excluding advance receipts at the top 100 real estate companies stood at 78.7% and 70.9%, respectively, which was a year-on-year decline of 0.7 percentage point and 0.9 percentage point.

A roundup of the ferrous metals headlines of the week.

Futures and spot prices of ferrous metals fluctuated last week. The futures prices of coking coal and coke weakened amid looser control after July 1, while spot prices stood stable.

Operating rates of blast furnaces at steel mills fell 2.7 percentage points from a week ago and decreased 3.8 percentage points from a month ago to 82.2% as of July 1, SMM survey showed.

The China Iron and Steel Association (CISA) reported that crude steel output across major mills in China averaged 2.4 million mt per day in the second ten days of June, up 2.57% from early June and up 15.99% from the same period a year ago.