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12/11/14

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Nickel inventories in warehouses monitored by the London Metal Exchange extended gains to a record after China, the biggest producer and consumer, shipped more metal out than it imported amid a financing scandal. Stockpiles climbed to 317,874 metric tons, for a 21 percent increase this year, according to the LME data.

Exports of refined nickel from China almost tripled in June to 16,737 tons, exceeding imports for the first time ever by 5,723 tons, customs data show. Nickel is used to make stainless steel.

“The recent build is probably attributable to the pick-up in refined nickel exports that came out of China,” Nicholas Snowdon, an analyst at Standard Chartered Plc in London, said by phone. “That is most likely related to some constraints on financing.”

Nickel has gained the most of the six main metals on the LME this year, rising as much as 56 percent after the largest miner Indonesia banned exports of unprocessed ore, a raw material used to make a lower-grade nickel substitute known as nickel-pig iron. Refined nickel production will exceed demand by 44,200 tons this year before turning into shortage of 97,100 tons in 2015, according to Morgan Stanley.

Prices have pared gains to 35 percent this year, to $18,730 a ton, on speculation that supplies are sufficient for now as stockpiles climbed to a record. The probe into metal inventories held at China’s Qingdao port in June led banks to cut back on financing, leading to more exports.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-...s-at-record-high-as-china-turns-exporter.html

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From the same article, for some context:

Refined nickel approved by the LME is used in about one-third of nickel demand as consumers first use scrap, ferronickel, nickel-pig iron or off-grade material, according to Citigroup. The LME’s network of more than 700 depots worldwide doesn’t stretch to China, the biggest consumer of industrial metals.

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