Chinese renewables prices were mixed for the week. The price of neodymium declined 1.2 percent over the past week, settling at CNY 420,000 ($69,120) per metric ton. Following a 0.4 percent increase in the week prior, the price of silicon fell 0.4 percent last week to CNY 13,850 ($2,285) per metric ton. At CNY 196,000 ($32,334) per metric ton, the week finished with no movement for Chinese cobalt cathodes. Chinese steel plate prices held steady from the previous week at CNY 3,890 ($641.73) per metric ton.
US grain-oriented electrical steel (GOES) saw little movement at $3,043 per short ton.
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