SHANGHAI, Sep 1 (SMM) – The most-traded SHFE nickel contract opened at 165,300 yuan/mt at the night session on August 31, and closed at 164,840 yuan/mt, down 960 yuan/mt. Trading volume rose by 44,677 lots, and open interest decreased by 1,857 lots.
From a macro perspective, the US announced the August USADP employment data as 177,000, less than the predicted value of 195,000 and far lower than the previous value of 371,000, indicating that current US market performance declined and labor market performance was poor. It may affect the process of the Fed to raise interest rates in September. In the fundamentals, spot market transactions were depressed and downstream demand was muted. So, nickel prices are expected to fluctuate in the future.


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