Today's news: the Federal Reserve will use its power to the limit * Chile's copper industry is almost unaffected by the epidemic * thread prices are stable and weak under heavy inventory

Published: Apr 30, 2020 09:20

Macro news

Reading by the Bureau of Statistics: manufacturing PMI has fallen, the index of non-manufacturing business activity is higher than last month.

Bureau of Statistics: manufacturing PMI fell 1.2 percentage points from the previous month to 50.8 per cent in April

William Powell: the Federal Reserve will use its power to the limit. The U. S. economy needs more help.

Metal news

[SMM investigation] the local preparation of goods before the festival shows that the weekly operating rate of licensed recycled lead enterprises is the same.

[SMM Survey] the final value of the PMI composite index of nickel downstream industries in April was 4.55 percentage points lower than that in March.

The price of rare earth products fluctuates slowly between ups and downs [SMM analysis]

[SMM analysis] Cobalt raw material tension superimposed smelter plans to reduce the price of cobalt tetroxide can be adjusted in the short term?

The terminal is stable in stock on the 29th day, and the price is stable and weak under the heavy pressure of inventory.

Minister of Mining: Chile's copper industry is almost unaffected by the epidemic

Aluminum imports in the United States fell 39% from January to February compared with the same period last year

Vale: resuming operations at the Timbopeba mine next week

 

Related news

Circular of the National Development and Reform Commission on several measures to stabilize and expand Automobile consumption

The impact of the Global epidemic on China's supply chain: it is difficult to hide the controllable shortcomings of cut-off supply

 

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