LME technicals confirm $... per mton as next short-term target. Premiums fall again across Europe; Scrap demand tumbles
1. ALERT! - LME PRICE. Prices have technically opened the door for a sooner-than-expected visit to $... per mton amid bearish cocktail of rapidly deteriorating end-user demand and poor medium-term technical indicators.
2. RERUN: ALERT! - LME PRICE. ALREADY CONTRACTING: US and European manufacturing output is already contracting; we could see $... per mton sooner-than-expected.
3. EUROPEAN P1020 ALERT. MORE DECLINES: European P1020 premiums fall again.
4. RERUN: EUROPEAN BILLET ALERT. FALLS FURTHER: European billet spot premiums decline extends.
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5. US BILLET ALERT. BEARISH: US billet demand weakens.
6. RERUN: SPECIAL ALERT! - US HIGH PURITY ALUMINUM. A MATTER OF NATIONAL SECURITY: Hawesville’s curtailment leaves the US and allies without needed key aluminum supply for defense and aerospace purposes.
7. WORLD PFA ALERT. GOING UPSTREAM: EGA to build silicon metal plant by 2023.
8. EUROPEAN SCRAP ALERT. BREAKING RANKS: Demand for secondary ingot and scrap tumbles.
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9. US UBC ALERT. UBC demand plummets.
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10. US SECONDARY SCRAP ALERT. FALLING: Secondary scrap demand and prices continue to decline.
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11. ALERT! - ALUMINUM SCRAP MEXICO. NO HOME: Scrap prices plummet to multi-month lows.
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12. China’s aluminum prices fall and reach identified price target around... yuan per mton.
13. LME Cash–3M contango widens; far end contango widens to one-year highs.