Special Note: HARBOR’s Daily Aluminum Commentary will not be published on Monday, July 4, due to the US Independence Day holiday.
1. ALERT! – LME PRICE. Against all other forecasts (again), HARBOR’s bearish price target zone of $… per mton was reached today.
2. ALUMINUM DEMAND UPDATE. World manufacturing activity growth weakened in June toward two-year lows, with a contraction in US new orders for the first time since May 2020.
3. US MW PREMIUM ALERT. DOWNTREND CONTINUES: MW premium weakens to five-month lows.
4. EUROPE WIRE ROD ALERT. PLATEAU BEFORE FALL? European EC rod premiums defying world premium bearishness for now.
5. EUROPEAN BILLET ALERT. FROM TURKEY TO THE WORLD.
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6. EUROPEAN SCRAP ALERT. BEARISH SCARP & SECONDARY.
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7. GREEN ALUMINUM MONITOR: Taxing non-green aluminum imports.
For more details, please see HARBOR’s Green Aluminum Monitor released earlier today.
8. China’s aluminum prices continue to test key support at seven-month lows.
9. LME Cash–3M contango narrows to one-week lows, far out contangos widen further.