En el año 2022, durante el 7 de marzo al 8 de marzo, el precio del contrato de níquel de la Bolsa de Metales de Londres (en lo sucesivo, LME "Níquel") es continua alza, con un aumento total de hasta 248%, una vez que alcanzó un récord de $100.000 / tonelada, convertido en el "Demonio de níquel ", que estaba volando seriamente lejos de los fundamentos. En la tarde del 8 de marzo, el sitio web de la LME reveló la suspensión del comercio de níquel, y por la noche anunció el aplazamiento de la entrega de todos los contratos de níquel al contado que están programados para la entrega el 9 de marzo.
Behind LME “Demon Nickel”, the futures circle rumors that the nickel production giant QingShan Group has a large short position of LME nickel ( QingShan Group sold about 200,000 tons of Electrolytic nickel futures ). And Russia is the largest reserve country of electrolytic nickel. After the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine war, the market worry about the supply of electrolytic nickel, which caused the futures speculation operation from the financial capital market.
The international capital giant-Glencore catched this market opportunity and madly bought the nickel inventory in the market to drive up the nickel price, to hunt and kill QingShan’s large short position of Nickel, intends to get huge profits and force QingShan to sell its controlling stake of the Nickel mine in Indonesia.
Nickel is an important component of stainless steel, so the nickel price will affect the price of raw material stainless steel, the relevant industry market are concerning about the “Demon Nickel” market direction.
Our company is also concerning about the fate of QingShan Group, because our company is the qualified supplier of QingShan Group, supply the mining intelligent pressure transmitter.