Analysts «Commerzbank» - one of the most powerful financial corporations with headquarters in Germany - believe that the three-month contracts for copper in the short term rise. "The rebound may occur after the quotation reached the resistance line at around 7740 USD per ton. After a brief rise in prices, we are waiting nezatyazhnoy "Flete", followed by a second "bearish" trend "

The management of "KZOTSM" ( "Kirov factory for processing non-ferrous metals") has signed an agreement with representatives of the Volga-Vyatka branch "Sberbank of Russia" to open a credit line in the amount of 260 million rubles.

In China molybdenum prices went up: the sellers are trying to capitalize on the upcoming replenishment steel companies stocks. The vast majority of the market participants showed enviable synchronicity

Employees WBMS (World Bureau of Metal Statistics) published data on the state of the world market of non-ferrous metals for the year 2012. According to the Bureau of Statistics, tin, and lead, were delivered to the market in short supply, as aluminum, zinc, copper, and nickel - on the contrary, were present at the warehouses of exchanges with excess.

This week in the Voronezh Regional Duma held a regular meeting of the Public Council, which controls the nickel mining issue at Elkinskom and Elan mines. The main thesis of the event was: "The development of nickel deposits in the area Novokhopersk - issue of national importance. However, in the foreground in the situation it appears ecology edge. "

The world's largest manufacturer of stainless steel - the German company «ThyssenKrupp» - put into circulation debt securities in the amount of € 1.25 billion. This is only part of the planned borrowing program owners, a common outcome of which will be to attract credit funds amounting to 10 billion EUR.

Representatives of the largest iron ore company in the CIS - Management Company "Metalloinvest" - denied the rumors about the imminent change of ownership Udokan copper deposit.

Despite the "meteor attack" partially destroyed one of the buildings of JSC "CZP" (CZP), work at a metallurgical plant is not stopped - according to representatives of the organization.

The association of Chinese producers of special steels (SSEAC) summed up the results of foreign trade activities of the state on the corrosion-resistant metal in the past year. As it turned out, during the reporting period the volume of imports of stainless steel in the country significantly reduced: for 12 months on the territory of the PRC was imported 772 thousand tons of rolled products in this category, which is 14% less than in 2011..

In the warehouses of the London Stock Exchange non-ferrous metal last week recorded a tangible increase in copper reserves. The amount of this resource in the bins after Friday LME trades reached a level of 400 thousand tons, a record trading platform for a long period of more than 12 months.

The fact that the Russian market, the domestic stainless steel sheet gradually gave way to a strategically important position to import analogues, to a large extent the group "Mechel" management companies blame. It is this opinion was expressed by analysts "Special Steels' Association, published on its website an analytical article on the state of affairs in the sector.

OK "Rusal" will be taken for the restoration of ore mining industry for aluminum production in the Sverdlovsk region. The journalists reported the press-center of the governor of the region - Eugene Kuyvasheva, visited last week on a business trip a number of enterprises in the region.

tin prices in 2013 will demonstrate one of the most famous figures of the alphabet stock trading - the so-called «Double Bottom» ( «double bottom"). Such a forecast of developments in the non-ferrous metal market analysts announced «Barclays» financial conglomerate - the largest international investment market operator with headquarters in London.

State Property Fund of Ukraine has released data on income in the treasury powers flows from the lease of titanium GOK country - "Volnogorsk State Mining and Metallurgical Plant" (Dnipropetrovsk region) and "Irshansk State Mining and Processing Plant" (Zhytomyr region) over the past year. This is 152.17 million hryvnia

Demand for aluminum in the global market in 2013 will exhibit the same dynamics as in the previous year. This is the forecast made in the next 12 months for the "winged metal" experts of the analytical department of the company "Russian Aluminium" (UC RUSAL).

One of the subsidiaries of «Evraz Group SA» - the company "Evrazruda" - filed a claim for pollution of land for agricultural purposes by industrial waste is unacceptable concentrations of copper, zinc and arsenic.

Officials TALCO (Tajik Aluminum Company) disclosed the reasons for reducing the volume of production of primary aluminum at the facilities of the company in 2012.

Representatives of the "Rosrezerva" (Department of state reserves management Russian) suspect management Mining and Metallurgical Company "Norilsk Nickel" in bad faith with respect to the State Property adopted by the Corporation for storage.

Players of the global stainless steel market are in a good mood: everything indicates that the marked revival in consumer demand for corrosion-resistant metal is not far off.