Metal ups and downs show that lead in Shanghai is up more than 2.4%. Stainless steel continues to decline by more than 4% [SMM afternoon Review]

Published: Dec 09, 2021 11:55 (GMT+8)
Source: SMM

SMM South China Nonferrous Annual meeting officially opened today 2022 Global economy, Copper, Aluminum and Zinc fundamentals and Price trend in-depth Analysis

SMM12 March 9: the dollar index rose slightly today, bringing some pressure to the metal market. Metal in the inner market is mixed. Shanghai lead remained unchanged today after last night's rally, closing up 2.42% at midday, followed by Shanghai Zinc, up 1.49%. Shanghai tin rose 0.36%. Shanghai Copper, Shanghai Aluminum and Shanghai Nickel continued their early decline, with Shanghai Nickel leading the way with a drop of 0.57%.

Black is still "green", stainless steel fell again near midday, closing down as much as 4.1%, down to 15605 yuan / ton, refreshing the lowest level since early July. Iron ore fell 3.62%, which was significantly larger than in early trading. Hot coil, thread both fell by more than 1.3%. Although there was a pullback near midday, Shuangjiao was still successful in maintaining stability, with coking coal up 0.27% and coke up 0.41% at midday.

The performance of the outer disk is slightly lower than that of the inner disk. As of around 11:30, Jinlun aluminum and zinc were slightly red, led by a 0.12% increase, while Lenny fell more than 0.42%, the biggest decline among the declining metals.

As for copper, today, the spot price of electrolytic copper in Guangdong province rose 150 litres of water for the current month, with an average price of 165 yuan / ton down 10 yuan / ton compared with the previous trading day; wet copper 110 yuan / ton-120 yuan / ton, the average price of 115 yuan / ton was the same as the previous trading day. The average price of electrolytic copper is 70090 yuan / ton, which is 115yuan / ton higher than that of the previous trading day, and the average price of wet-process copper is 70040 yuan / ton.

"spot trading has not changed much [SMM South China Copper spot]

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In terms of zinc, the mainstream turnover of zinc ingots in Tianjin market was 23380,23,510 yuan / ton, Zijin was traded at 23430,23,560 yuan / ton, Huludao was quoted at 26860 yuan / ton, zinc was generally quoted as a discount of 20,50 yuan / ton for 2201 contract, and the discount of Zijin to 220111 was 30 yuan / ton, and the discount in Tianjin was 130 yuan / ton higher than that in Shanghai. Today, zinc prices rise, the spot market to maintain the price of water, the price is more scattered. By the close of midday, the ordinary brand lark offered a discount of about 20,50 yuan / ton for the January contract, and Hongye offered a discount of about 30,50 yuan / ton for the January contract.

Tianjin Zinc: today's Zinc Price once again drives up the Market and traded in Liangliang [SMM afternoon Review]

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Tin, the upstream part of the smelter price strength is weak, maintaining the recent low rising water quotation. According to the feedback of traders, the supply of goods is stable today, and the tight supply of low-rise water brands has been improved. Today, the performance of market shipments is poor, traders generally report that it is difficult to close transactions, and there are few market inquiries. Due to the low quotations of some smelters, which occupy the shipping space of the same brand quotation traders, low-rise brand shipments still have an advantage over other brands as a whole.

"it is difficult to ship goods from stock to maintain the horizontal trading in Shanghai and Tin [SMM afternoon Review]

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In terms of crude oil, international crude oil futures extended their previous gains in Asian markets on Thursday, even as some governments tightened restrictions to stop the rapid spread of the virus. But the market remains confident that the mysterious Koron mutant virus will not dampen global economic growth.

In terms of precious metals, COMEX gold futures fell slightly on Thursday as the cooling of concerns about the mystery Koron reduced the charm of safe-haven gold, and investors continued to wait for the US CPI data to be released on Friday.

By the close of noon, the contracts in the metals and crude oil markets were as follows:

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