Week in Review: Earnings Reports, Capacity Utilization and Palladium’s Rise
Before we head into the weekend, let’s take a look back at the week that was and some of the metals storylines here on MetalMiner:
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- Nucor reported net earnings of $676.6 million in the third quarter.
- Global zinc and lead demand is forecast to rise this year and next, according to the International Lead and Zinc Study Group.
- MetalMiner’s Stuart Burns wrote about the power dynamics currently at play between Rome and Brussels, as Italy’s new ruling coalition has markedly different perspectives on the country’s economic direction.
- The U.S. steel capacity utilization rate hit 77.7% as of Oct. 20, according to a recent American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) report.
- Palladium prices continue to rise.
- The U.S. Department of Commerce issued preliminary determinations in its anti-dumping and countervailing duty investigations of steel propane cylinder imports from China.
- The U.S.’s metals tariffs have had ripple effects around the world — India is among the countries looking to protect its steel sector in the tariffs’ wake.
- Sticking in India, the gold buying during the country’s festival season isn’t quite as busy as it usually is, Sohrab Darabshaw explains.
- Ford Motor Co. released its third-quarter earnings results earlier this week, which prompted a surge in its stock price yesterday.
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