Commodity Market Report
Global zinc short-term outlook August 2017
*Please note that this report only includes an Excel data file if this is indicated in "What's included" below
Report summary
For the first time in a decade the zinc price has climbed above $3000/t. The price strength was driven by a combination of improving fundamentals, thin markets and short covering with even retail investors in China getting involved. However, with a muted supply response thus far, the risk of demand destruction is growing.
Table of contents
- Executive summary
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Supply-demand balances
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Market Developments
- Price forecasts and global quarterly supply and demand balance
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Market Developments
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Demand
- Global
- China
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Europe
- Galvanized sheet and metallic coated sheet production
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Supply
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Concentrate market
- Chinese sources of concentrate imports
- Concentrate balances
- August mine production news
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Smelter production news
- Index of monthly reported Chinese smelter production
- Zinc smelter capability, market adjustment and production (kt Zn)
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Concentrate market
Tables and charts
This report includes the following images and tables:
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Zinc key forecastsA surge in trading volume prompts the Shangahi Futures Exchange to intervene in zincExchange stocks have fallen to just eight days of consumption
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Mine project adjustment breakdownThe global economy is showing a surprising degree of stability and strengthRising land sales an upside risk to real-estate sector?All the key sectors of the European economy are growingTreatment charges $/t of concentrateIndex of monthly Chinese mine productionZinc mine capability, market adjustment and production (kt Zn)Supply-demand balances: Table 2Demand: Table 1
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What's included
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