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SMM Insight: Lead Prices Eye Uptick as Secondary Smelters Reboot, Boosting Scrap Battery Demand Prospects

Oct 12, 2024 19:51

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SMM Analysis: Multiple Secondary Lead Smelters Are Set to Resume Production, Anticipated Scrap Battery Purchase Demand May Support Lead Prices" SMM News, October 12: Lead prices fell initially and then rose in September, maintaining a range-bound oscillation pattern upon entering October. With the downstream lead-acid battery consumption market maintaining a sluggish status quo, battery manufacturers have shown limited enthusiasm for lead ingot procurement, and smelters have limited inventory digestion of finished products, resulting in low overall activity in the lead industry market. Additionally, due to...

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[SMM Survey: Supply-Side Disruptions Persist, Lead Prices Continue to Fluctuate at High Levels, 2024.12.16-2024.12.20] In the spot market, SMM 1# lead prices ranged from 17,150-17,375 yuan/mt this week (December 16-December 20). In the spot market, in-plant inventories of primary lead smelters declined, with significant regional price differences.

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Dec 20, 2024 17:47

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Dec 20, 2024 17:44

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SMM Weekly Operating Rate of Primary Lead Smelters (2024.12.14-2024.12.20) [SMM Survey]

[SMM Survey: Weekly Operating Rate of SMM Primary Lead Smelters (2024.12.14-2024.12.20)] According to a survey by Shanghai Metals Market (SMM), the operating rate of primary lead smelters this week (December 14-20, 2024) was 62.91%, down by 1.56 percentage points WoW...

Dec 20, 2024 17:23

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SHFE lead slightly closed down during the day; attention should be paid to the destocking of lead ingots in the future [Lead Futures Brief Review]

[SMM Lead Futures Brief Review] During the day, the most-traded SHFE lead 2501 contract opened at 17,335 yuan/mt, fluctuated around the intraday moving average after the opening, and finally closed at 17,360 yuan/mt, down 1.27%...

Dec 20, 2024 16:50

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Data: SHFE, DCE market movement (Dec 20)

The following table shows the ferrous and nonferrous metals movement on the SHFE and DCE on Dec 20, 2024

Dec 20, 2024 15:45

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Data: SHFE, DCE market movement (Dec 20)

SMM Shanghai and Other 1# Lead Markets: Supply-Side Production Cuts Persist While High-Price Trading Volume Shrinks in the Lead Market [SMM Midday Review]

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Dec 20, 2024 12:08

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Dec 20, 2024 10:04

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Downstream Enterprises Purchase on Dips as Needed, Spot Market Trading Activity Improves [SMM Lead Morning Comment Dec 20]

Overnight, LME lead opened lower at $1,974/mt, briefly touching a high of $1,975.5/mt during the Asian session.

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