Copying and distributing are prohibited without permission of the publisher

Scrap prices into SE Asia flat at $380-405 cfr

September 02, 2010 - 08:04 GMT Location: Singapore

KEYWORDS: Indonesia , Malaysia , Singapore , Vietnam , steel

Ferrous scrap import prices into Southeast Asia have remained flat this week as market stabilises, said sources across the region.

Bookings of HMS 1&2 (80:20 mix) in containers from Europe, the USA, the Middle East and Africa are at $380-405 per tonne cfr this week, unchanged from last week, said mill and trading sources. Offers have widened slightly to $400-420 per tonne cfr, from $405-420 per tonne cf last week. "Prices have not gone up this week, as [the] market has slowly stabilised. Suppliers and buyers accept the current prices as the market prices,” said a trader in Vietnam. Scrap prices are at their regional highest in...

All material subject to strictly enforced copyright laws. © Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC.


subscribe to this feed Comment & analysis

  • LORD COPPER: Glencore-Xstrata will be a merger of more-than-equals

    Glenstrata, X-Core, Davenberg, Mivan? Whatever the result of the Glencore-Xstrata merger is to be called, finding a name is an inevitable step after the IPO.

  • COMMENT: Glenstrata still has to break the mould

    The news that Glencore and Xstrata are in merger talks would only come as a surprise to someone living under a rock, and only then if said rock did not contain any valuable minerals. But now that talks of a tie-up of the world’s largest metals trader and its fourth largest miner have finally moved into the boardroom, hypothetical questions have become real, and the answers are far from certain.

  • APEX FULL YEAR 2011: Base metal forecasts: astounding accuracy

    Astounding upon astounding: that is how the 2011 leaderboard for Apex, the Metal Bulletin service that tracks the performance of over twenty top base metal price forecasters, appears when you consider it coldly.

Upcoming Events