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Nickel posts best quarter in nine years

1st October 2019

By: Bloomberg

  

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NEW YORK –  Nickel posted its best quarterly performance since 2010 as investors expect Indonesia’s year-end ban on exports of raw ore to tighten supply.

The metal used in stainless steel and batteries surged after Indonesia said on September 2 that the ban on nickel ore exports will take effect January 1, two years earlier than previously announced. That will remove as much as 350 000 t of the metal from global supply, the International Nickel Study Group has said.

Nickel jumped 34% this quarter, leading returns on the Bloomberg Commodity Index of 23 raw materials and far outpacing gains in equities. That makes it one of the few bright spots in industrial metals, which have been weighed down by concerns that the US-China trade war and slowing global economies will erode demand.

“The Indonesian ore ban, along with speculators investing on momentum being buyers rather than being sellers, are the two main reasons” nickel has performed better than other metals this quarter, Ryan McKay, a commodity strategist at TD Securities, said by phone from Toronto.

Orders to remove nickel from warehouses tracked by the London Metal Exchange rose for a seventh day, longest streak since 2013.

Nickel for delivery in three months slipped 0.9% to settle at $17 050 a metric ton at 5:53 p.m. on the LME. It has gained 59% this year.

Most other metals fell in London on Monday, with copper losing 4.5% for the quarter.

Edited by Bloomberg

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