SHANGHAI, Apr 24 (SMM) - The hawkish Fed officials basically agreed that the current anti-inflation policy had not made significant progress. They insisted on continuing to raise the rates in the future. Some officials predicted that inflation would fall to 3.25% this year, and anti-inflation would still take some time. The successive hawkish speeches had a negative effect on commodity prices, but nickel prices showed an upward trend last week. On the fundamentals, the NORNICKEL nickel supply was tight as the import window remained closed, which greatly pushed up the NORNICKEL nickel premiums. With the inflow of spots for long-term orders and warrant delivery, the NORNICKEL nickel premiums will fall. The intensive commissioning of new refined nickel projects will probably be postponed if the cost efficiency falls. According to the current situation, the profit margins of electrowinning nickel companies that produce with nickel sulphate have widened again, which may stimulate the production. On the demand side, the recent strengthening of nickel prices suppressed downstream purchases and aroused a wait-and-see sentiment among downstream buyers before the Labour Day holiday. In general, the overall nickel prices gained some fundamental support last week. However, in the later stage, the problem of insufficient warrants will be alleviated with the growth of the deliverable spots for SHFE and LME warrants, which, coupled with the expected electrowinning nickel output hike, will drag down nickel prices.


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