Big Change In Europe Ferro-tungsten Market

Recently, there is a big change in Europe ferro-tungsten,steel, and copperer market.

Ferro-tungsten prices in are at a two-year low due to a fall in steel production and manufacturing generally. Roger Bade, at London's Whitman Howard, says the collapse of demand in Europe is also having an impact on ferro-molybdenum and ferro-vanadium prices.
With increasing tungsten production coming out of Vietnam (and a new mine about to start up in South Korea), a price rebound is not expected in the near future.

Steel demand in Europe is expected to fall again this year -- which, of course, has its portents for iron ore.

Bade has a point to make here, too. After hearing the Sydney-based AME Group's presentation at the Mines & Money conference in Hong Kong, Bade wrote in his overnight client note that "apparently the reason why Rio Tinto is ramping up iron ore production so much is to get the price down, such that the West African projects don't happen, while at the same time pressurising Australian politicians to change the minerals resource rent tax for the forthcoming general election".

And here's another tale of woe: copper. On Tuesday night, London Metal Exchange warehouse inventories of the red metal hit another 52-week high, this time 547,025 tonnes -- a nine-year high. That was up 24,775 tonnes over just three business days, with 18,100 tonnes landing in warehouses on Monday alone.

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