🚨Iron ore and coke are plummeting 9% in China, and coking coal is down 6.45%, HRC and steel rebar futures are dropping more than 5%.
Crude oil is down 4.23% in Shanghai. #China#futures#Ironore
#Ironore futures slumped as much as 5% in Singapore to hit $114 a ton, the lowest in six months.
Iron ore in Dalian drops to 760 yuan per ton, the lowest in a month.
#Glass futures rise 2% in Zhengzhou, and many glass manufacturers have raised their prices this weekend amid surging costs. #China#futures
#CN_Update #IronOre and #Coke futures extend slumps to over 10%, iron ore to a fresh 3-month low, and coke to a 4-month low. Hot-rolled coils and rebars are down 7%. #China
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Three steel makers in #Shanxi asked for suppliers to trim #coke prices by 300 yuan per tonne on Saturday, amid the depressing spot steel market and intensifying cost pressure. #China#IronOre#steel
Everbright Futures on #China's #IronOre market today:
The apparent demand for rebar kept falling as stockpiles in plants and society increased last week, which falsified the previous demand outlook in the low season, triggering panic selling by spot merchants on Monday.
#CN_Update
The dumping of "Black" commodities futures is continuing in the afternoon session, as #IronOre diving 11% to a limit-down. Coke and coking coal are plummeting by around 12%. Steel rebar and HRC are falling by 7%. #China#steel
🇨🇳#CN_Update Thread for NDRC
NDRC: Consumption in the market was robust during the just-concluded National Day holiday, full of confidence in achieving the target tasks of economic and social development for the whole year.
#China
🇨🇳NDRC: China's financial sector has recently stepped up its efforts to launch a package of incremental policies to promote a sustained economic upturn for the better.
#CN_Note
No latest policy measures have been proposed by the NDRC yet.
🇨🇳NDRC: China's market expectations have shown notable improvement recently.
To strengthen support for local governments in debt swaps to mitigate debt risks.
#China
The "Decision on Comprehensively Deepening Reform and Advancing Chinese-style Modernization" proposes more than 300 major reform measures, all of which pertain to aspects of systems, mechanisms, and institutions.
🇨🇳#China #CPC
🇨🇳Some details:
🔸Need to develop policies and mechanisms for the elderly care industry
🔸The systems for property rights protection, information disclosure, market access, and bankruptcy exit need to be improved.
🔸A growth mechanism for future industry investments should be established.
🔸Local governments' autonomous financial power should be increased, and local tax sources should be expanded. #LGFV
🔸Should study tax system that adapts to new business models.
🔸Proactively align with international high-standard economic and trade rules to expand institutional opening.
🔸Unilateral opening should be expanded for the least developed countries.
🔸Mechanisms to promote high-quality and sufficient employment should be improved.
1⃣ #China's Jan-May industry output +5.6% y/y or +0.3% m/m.
2⃣ #Crudeoil refinery -1.8% to 60.52 million tons.
Power generation +2.3% to 0.72 TWh. #OOTT
3⃣ #Automobile production +1.3% to 2.35 mln units, NEVs +33.6% to 0.92 mln units.
4⃣ #Steel production +3.4% to 1.23 trillion.
🇨🇳In Jan-May, #China's total retail sales were recorded at 3.921 trillion yuan, up 3.7%y/y(expanded).
🟦Retail sales of goods were 3.5 trillion yuan, which rose by 3.6%y/y; (expanded)
🟨Total revenue for the catering industry was 427.4 billion yuan, which rose 5.0%. (expanded).
⚡JUST IN:
China February
Annual CPI 0.7% [Est. 0.4% Prev. -0.8%]
Monthly CPI 1.0% [Est. 0.4% Prev. 0.3%]
Annual PPI -2.7% [Est. -2.5% Prev. -2.5%]
Monthly PPI -0.2% [Prev. -0.2%]
*The first rise in consumer prices since August.
#CPI #China #deflation #PPI #EconTwitter 🇨🇳 1/ thread
CHINA CPI BREAKDOWN:
🔸February annual CPI rebounded sharply, the most since Sep. 2009.
🔸The core CPI rose by 1.2% y/y, vs 0.4% y/y in January, marking the highest increase since February 2022.
🔸Food prices dropped by 0.9% y/y, narrowed by 5 percentage points, due to Chinese New Year effects.
🔸Pork roses by 0.2% y/y, for the first time in 9 months.
🔸Vegetables and aquatic products have risen by 2.9%, and 4.1% from the decline in January.
#PPI #Industry #China #EconTwitter #OOTT #deflation 🇨🇳
CHINA PPI BREAKDOWN:
🔸PPI decline narrowed in February.
🔸PPI -0.2% m/m🟨, with a -0.2% input prices🟨 and a narrower decline in producer prices for consumption goods (-0.1%)🟨. 3/ #PPI #Industry #China #EconTwitter #OOTT #deflation 🇨🇳
⚡ China's Jan-Feb trade balance at 890.86 billion yuan:
#Exports +10.3% y/y, Prev. +3.8%
#Imports +6.7% y/y, Prev. +1.6%v
Trade balance at $125.16 bln in USD term
#Exports +7.1% y/y, Est. +1.9%
#Imports +3.5% y/y, Est. +1.5% 1/n #trade #economy 🇨🇳🇺🇸
⚡China exported and imported 6.61 trillion yuan(+8.7% y/y) of goods in yuan term or $930.86 bln(+5.5% y/y) in USD term in January and February. 2/n #China #trade #import #export #economy 🇨🇳🇺🇸
⚡#China's Jan-Feb #trade with
ASEAN +8.1% y/y to 0.993 trillion yuan
🇪🇺EU -1.3% y/y to 0.832 trillion yuan📉
🇺🇸US +3.7% y/y to 0.707 trillion yuan
🇰🇷S.Korea +2.9 % y/y to 0.337 trillion yuan 4/n #China #trade 🇨🇳