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Antoine Carassus, head of copper trading at Transamine, is leaving the Geneva-based company after 12 years, Fastmarkets learned on Tuesday September 19. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Gunvor Group has hired veteran trader Ivan Petev to rebuild a global metals trading team to diversify from its core energy business and support its energy transition efforts, Fastmarkets learned on Wednesday 13 September. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

US copper miner Freeport-McMoRan agreed treatment and refining charges (TC/RC) for copper concentrate in the 2023 contractual supply negotiations with the three biggest Chinese smelters on Wednesday November 24, Fastmarkets has learnt. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Iron ore prices may correct further but are unlikely to fall below $100 per tonne in the near future or at least for a sustainable period, according to some speakers at Fastmarkets' International Iron Ore conference in Dusseldorf, Germany. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Additional premiums for low-carbon 'green steel' are currently still a bit of a niche market, but they will become the norm in the next three-to-10 years, according to panelists at Fastmarkets' International Iron Ore conference in Düsseldorf, Germany, this week. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

ICBC Standard Bank plans to close down its base metals trading unit in the first half of 2020 amid unfavorable market conditions, the bank said on Friday November 8. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Amalgamated Metal Trading Ltd (AMT), a ring-dealing member of the London Metal Exchange, plans to open an office in Singapore to expand its ex-China Asian business, Fastmarkets understands. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

North European and Japanese aluminium premiums fell in the week ended Tuesday September 24, while rates in the rest of Asia, Brazil and the United States were unchanged amid slowed spot demand and bearish sentiment at a major industry gathering in Greece. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Fastmarkets published its monthly Shanghai, nickel premium, 99.80% purity briquette, on a duty free cif basis, two minutes later than scheduled on Tuesday September 24 due to an unforeseen market shift from a premium to a discount. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Fastmarkets published its alumina index, fob Australia 23 minutes later than scheduled on Tuesday September 24 due to a technical issue during the pricing discovery process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Fastmarkets incorrectly published weekly assessments for its Southeast Asian zinc premium over the past two months when the price should have been published every two weeks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Atlantic Copper, Europe's third largest copper smelter and refinery, has delayed intake of copper concentrates for up to two weeks, with primary smelting reduced to 40% capacity after an outage at its electric furnace, sources at the company told Fastmarkets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

China announced a third round of copper scrap import quotas on Wednesday August 14, allowing a select list of importers to bring an additional 87,680 tonnes of copper scrap into the country by the end of 2019, according to the Bureau of International Recycling. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Shigemoto Toma joined Anglo American in Singapore last week as a senior base metals trader to expand the company's physical and financial trading book and help its shift towards being a miner-trader. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Gerald Group subsidiary SL Mining has halted iron ore exports from Sierra Leone's Marampa mine to comply with a request from the new mining ministry, which is reviewing the terms of the current license agreement, Gerald told Fastmarkets on Friday August 2. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A summary of Antofagasta's production results for the first half of 2019. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Fastmarkets proposes to reduce the frequency of publication of a number of base metal price assessments in response to low transaction liquidity and a lack of price volatility in the past year. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Indonesia could account for 40% of the global supply of nickel units in four years' time, compared with 29% this year, Jim Lennon, a consultant for financial adviser Macquarie, said on Thursday June 6. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The refined nickel market deficit is expected to nearly halve to around 80,000 tonnes this year from almost 150,000 tonnes in 2018, the International Nickel Study Group said on Wednesday June 5. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The London Metal Exchange hopes to drive nickel stocks back onto the exchange with new warehouse proposals to be announced in the summer, vice-president of sales Alberto Xodo said on Wednesday June 5. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Trafigura has consolidated its leadership team in the non-ferrous refined and concentrates metal division headed by Amin Zahir in a management reshuffle, Fastmarkets learned on Wednesday May 15. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Base metals trader and head of funding and inventory Evan Richards is leaving ICBC Standard Bank after just eight months at the company, Fastmarkets learned on Thursday May 2. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This recent drop in copper prices is not reflective of the current tight supply and demand fundamentals and a rebound could take place as soon as next week, Codelco's chief commercial officer Roberto Ecclefield told Fastmarkets on Friday May 3. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An agreement in next week's labor negotiations at Codelco's Chuquicamata mining and smelting division could prove tough to secure, Fastmarkets learned on Friday May 3. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Copper fund Red Kite has settled its $850 million market manipulation lawsuit with Barclays out of court, the bank said in a statement today April 18. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Engelhart Commodities Trading Partners (ECTP) moved closer to exiting London Metal Exchange warehousing operations on Tuesday April 16, with the sale of its European sheds and stocks to Dutch logistics company Kloosterboer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Fastmarkets has published its monthly ferro-nickel cif China premium later than scheduled on Tuesday April 16 because of a reporter error. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Chilean state-owned copper producer Codelco believes restarting operations at its Chuquicamata smelter in late April is still feasible with ramp-up happening in the second half of May, although market participants are expecting it to resume in June or July. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Bluequest Resources made an audacious swoop to hire the majority of rival trader MRI's Zug, Switzerland-based trading team, Fastmarkets understands. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Engelhart Commodities Trading Partners (ECTP) is accelerating its retreat from physical commodities with an exit from base metals, cotton, coal, iron ore and warehousing physical operations on the cards this year, well-informed sources told Fastmarket on Monday April 8. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Sentiment was unusually bearish at this year's Cesco week in Santiago, Chile, with copper market participants increasingly concerned that sluggish demand in China will limit the upside potential of the red metal price. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The price of copper could go as high as $3 per lb ($6,610 per tonne) by June 2019, and stay above that threshold for the rest of the year and into 2020, although the upside was limited, Diego Hernandez, president of Chilean mining society Sonami, said on Monday April 8. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Chilean copper producer Empresa Nacional de Minería (Enami) expects to produce 140,000 tonnes of copper in 2019, an increase of 7.7% over 2018, sales manager Pedro Pablo Lavin told Fastmarkets on Tuesday April 9. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Chinese copper cathode consumption growth, although still expected to increase, should slow in 2019, while China's economic growth falters and availability of concentrates decreases, Metal Challenge said on Sunday April 7. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Financial troubles at one of China's largest copper importers, Tewoo Group, has pushed the metal's premiums in Shanghai lower this month and revived worries over the health of the country's economy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Fastmarkets is launching seven new aluminium price assessments today, Thursday April 4 - including calcined pet coke, extrusion and flat-rolled products - to expand our coverage of the aluminium market from upstream to downstream. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Weak demand pushed European premiums down in the week ended Tuesday April 2 even though restored Indonesian supply is less than before; meanwhile, overseas firms sold aggressively into the United States bringing down the premiums there and China's tin market saw no change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The London Metal Exchange has announced new warehouse reform proposals - the friendliest to warehousers in seven years - that aim to make LME warehousing attractive again and encourage more metal onto the exchange. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The London Metal Exchange has proposed an enhancement of its warehouse stock reporting model in a bid to garner further transparency against a recent tide of inordinate stock moves, it said in its latest warehousing discussion paper released on Friday March 29. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Robin Scheiner will lead a merged aluminium-alumina department at Glencore following the departure of David Streule, sources close to the matter told Fastmarkets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The premium for the supply of aluminium to main Japanese ports (MJP) for the second quarter of 2019 has settled at $105 per tonne, representing a 25% increase from the first-quarter benchmark of $83-85 per tonne. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The London Metal Exchange is at the heart of yet another warehousing conundrum, with pressure mounting for a ruling on why the linked load-in/load-out (LILO) rule was not activated at end of January despite a large queue of Glencore-owned aluminium appearing at Istim's warehouses in Malaysia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Tight tin supply in Europe has market participants looking to Indonesia's elections next month for guidance on renewed supply from the major tin exporter; meanwhile, the United States has adequate stock but new suppliers are looking to edge into the market and China has a quiet week. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Codelco faces further delays in bringing back refined copper smelting at its Chuquicamata plant, which is now expected to resume operations in mid-April, company sources told Fastmarkets on Tuesday March 5. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Fastmarkets proposes to launch seven new aluminium prices, including calcined pet coke, extrusion and flat-rolled product assessments, that will expand our coverage of the aluminium market from upstream to downstream. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Premium offers for aluminium supplies to Japan in the second quarter came in this week well above first-quarter levels, at $109-112 per tonne cif MJP, surprising buyers who are still hoping for a benchmark settlement below the $100 mark, Fastmarkets learned on Friday March 1. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Fastmarkets discontinued its weekly premium assessments for special high grade (SHG) zinc basis in-warehouse Singapore and Malaysia on Tuesday February 12. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Former BHP Billiton director John Crofts has joined Ocean Partners in Australia to help develop new opportunities in the base and precious metals concentrate market, Fastmarkets learned on Wednesday January 23. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Graham Hawkins is leaving Henry Bath with immediate effect after 16 years in senior leadership roles, with the head of Asia Sean Ginnane taking over as chief executive officer, the LME-registered warehousing company said on Thursday January 17. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The benchmark for the supply of aluminium to main Japanese ports (MJP) in the first quarter of 2019 has settled in a premium range of $83-85 per tonne cif over the London Metal Exchange price, the lowest level in more than two years, sources directly involved in the negotiations disclosed to Fastmarkets MB. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]