Today's news: three major interest rates remain unchanged in Europe * garbage sorting may trigger demand for stainless steel barrel products

Published: Jul 26, 2019 08:56

Macro information

Keeping the three major interest rates unchanged in Europe will lead to a highly loose monetary policy for a long time

Fed rate cut could be much steeper than expected Treasury yield curve

Business confidence in Germany fell for the fourth month in a row to hit its lowest level in six years

The PMI data of multinational manufacturing industry is not as good as expected. The loose monetary policy environment is expected to be maintained.

Metal news

It is not clear that the domestic TC still maintains a high level operation in the smelting game of zinc mine [SMM analysis].

[SMM] New Fashion brings New tuyere? Waste classification may cause explosion of stainless steel bucket products demand

Several ups and downs [SMM]: review of China's Manganese Mine Import data in the first half of 2019

[SMM hot coil inventory analysis] Plant warehouse decline "side knock" supply reduction fundamentals are expected to improve

The second quarter output of the eight largest copper mining enterprises in the world decreased by 4.8% in the first half of the year compared with the same period last year.

Teck Resources profit was lower than expected due to falling base metal prices

The company launched the "iron ore brand delivery system consultation letter" brand delivery outline of the first appearance?

The new rare earth material project in Baotou City completed an investment of 2.24 billion yuan in the first half of 2019.

Due to the reduction of 5N Plus in the supply of slag, the purchase of bismuth will be re-increased.

Related news

In the first half of the year, the increase of photovoltaic capacity in China decreased by more than 50% in the second half of the year or to meet the explosive growth.

The cross-border photovoltaic line of this coal company to build 10GW Heterojunction battery production line was questioned by the Shanghai Stock Exchange.

Tesla will use Maxwell technology to make batteries with too watt-hour production capacity within 6 months.

The National Energy Administration disclosed a substantial increase in investment in the "semi-annual report" to make up for the shortcomings of the board.

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