大宗商品市场报告-2012年4月第一周

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'Gold and Silver still extremely bullish for 2012, 2013'

“This year and next, we still expect significant annual rises in gold and silver prices from strong investment demand,” Morgan Stanley says. Among

commodities, Morgan Stanley says it remains bullish on the precious-metals complex and old-crop grains.

Source: Commodity Online

Iron Ore-Slow physical market, waiting for China's return

Iron ore held steady near five-month highs on limited physical market

activity with top buyer China out for a national holiday and traders unsure whether recent price gains can be sustained unless Chinese steel demand rebounds sharply.

Iron ore with 62 percent iron content was unchanged at $147.60 a tonne on Monday, according to Steel Index, just off a five-month peak of $147.70 touched last week.Source: Reuters

Fortescue’s Power Says China Steel Demand ‘Very Strong’

Fortescue Metals Group Ltd. (FMG), Australia’s third-biggest iron ore

exporter, said it expects urbanization and the construction of infrastructure in central and western China to fuel “very strong” demand for steel. Source: Bloomberg

Petronas’s South African Unit Suspends Oil Import!s From Iran

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Petroliam Nasional Bhd. (PET)’s Engen unit, the biggest South African import!er of Iranian crude, said it has suspended import!s of oil from the Middle Eastern nation amid economic sanctions by the U.S. and the European Union.

Source: Bloomberg

Brazil Feb Iron Ore Exports Fell To 16.61 Million Tons – Sinferbase Brazilian mining companies exported 16.61 million metric tons of iron ore and pellets in February, down from 21.89 million tons in the same month of 2011, the country's iron ore producers' association Sinferbase said Monday. Vale and MMX said in recent conference calls that their output and transport of ore was affected by heavier than usual rains in Minas Gerais state in January. The rains led Vale to declare a force majeure on some contracts for 13 days in January, leading to a backlog in some shipments. Source: Dow Jones

Copper nears 2012 peak, mood upbeat

Copper rose to its highest level in nearly two months on Tuesday, coming close to its 2012 peak and adding to sharp gains in the previous session, as upbeat manufacturing data in the United States and China revived appetite for risk assets.

Source: Reuters

S.Korea KOSPO buys 155,000 T coal for June

Korea Southern Power Co Ltd (KOSPO) bought a total of 155,000 tonnes of steaming coal for delivery in June via tenders that closed on March 26-27, a company source said on Monday.

The utility had bought coal of Indonesian origin of 4,500 kcal at about $94

per tonne on a free-on-board (FOB) basis, according to the source, who

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declined to disclose supplier information. Source: Reuters