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financialpost.com | Katharine Gemmell
In much of the region, this fight is something of a novelty. During an earlier surge of Chinese steel exports in 2015-2016, a lot of China’s supplies also ended up here. But now countries from Vietnam to Indonesia and Malaysia have large, developed domestic steel industries — and domestic markets to defend. Conditions overseas are also far more brutal.
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bloomberg.com | Katharine Gemmell
The Pomina Flat Steel JSC plant in Phu My, Vietnam on April 9. Vietnamese steelmakers are feeling the impact of seismic changes in geopolitics and global trade. (Bloomberg) -- It’s 8am and already sweltering at the Pomina Flat Steel JSC plant outside Ho Chi Minh City, as the night shift’s last pour of molten metal is shaped, cooled and cut into rods.
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flipboard.com | Katharine Gemmell
7 hours agoThe new console will be widely available starting June 5. Nintendo finally revealed when gamers in the US and Canada will be able to place their orders for Switch 2 consoles. Nintendo announced that Switch 2 pre-orders will open on April 24 in both regions. Price has remained the same, even in the …
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bloomberg.com | Katharine Gemmell
A crane unloads iron ore from a barge. Photographer: Alex Kraus/Bloomberg(Bloomberg) -- Iron ore resumed its decline on concerns that US President Donald Trump’s trade war could hurt global economic growth. The steelmaking ingredient fell as much as 1% as traders assessed Trump’s country-specific negotiations. China, the world’s second-biggest economy, warned nations against striking trade deals with Washington that could hurt Beijing’s interests.
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bloomberglinea.com.br | Katharine Gemmell
Bloomberg — As maiores produtoras de minério de ferro do mundo enfrentam um começo de ano difícil, após condições climáticas extremas impactarem a produção e enquanto seu maior cliente, a China, se prepara para uma guerra comercial. Esta semana, a BHP, a Rio Tinto e a Vale (VALE3) relataram quedas nos embarques trimestrais em relação ao ano anterior, resultado de disrupções causadas por ciclones em Pilbara, na Austrália, e fortes chuvas no norte do Brasil.
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bloomberglinea.com | Katharine Gemmell |Jack Ryan
Bloomberg — El cobre bajó, junto con la mayoría de los demás metales industriales, en medio de la persistente incertidumbre sobre el futuro de los aranceles estadounidenses a China, el mayor consumidor de estos materiales. Docenas de naciones están buscando reducciones o exenciones de los históricos impuestos a la importación del presidente Donald Trump. Pero EE.UU.
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detroitnews.com | Katharine Gemmell |Jack Ryan
Katharine Gemmell and Jack RyanBloombergCopper edged lower, along with most other industrial metals, amid persistent uncertainty over the future of US tariffs on China, the largest consumer of the materials. Dozens of nations are seeking reductions or exemptions from President Donald Trump’s historic import taxes. But the US is preparing to pressure countries to curb trade with China as they negotiate to ease restrictions on their own products, according to people familiar with the matter.
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bloomberg.com | Katharine Gemmell |Jack Ryan
A worker uses a rod to stir a mixture of molten copper and zinc in the foundry at the Valjaonica Bakra Sevojno AD copper mill in Sevojno, Serbia, on Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2021. For months, the copper market has been caught in a tug of war between steadily shrinking supplies on one side, and an increasingly strained global economy on the other.
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news.bloomberglaw.com | Katharine Gemmell
Most base metals were steady to higher after President Trump signaled the US and Japan were making headway on a trade deal, raising hopes that hefty, growth-sapping tariffs can be avoided. Zinc and tin climbed on the London Metal Exchange, while copper dipped as a gauge of the dollar strengthened modestly, making the industrial metal more expensive for many buyers. Trump said trade negotiators had made “big progress” following a meeting between delegates from the two countries.
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mk.bloombergadria.com | Katharine Gemmell
Сподели ја веста WhatsApp Viber Link copied Copy link Суровини 17 април 2025, 11:17 Поголемиот дел основни метали останаа стабилни, но на веќе покачено ниво откако претседателот Доналд Трамп сигнализираше дека САД и Јапонија напредуваат во трговските преговори, зголемувајќи ги надежите дека може да се избегнат големите царини што го намалуваат растот.
