硅锰市场周报:政策支撑、企业减排,现货涨价库存去化-20250808
- Report Industry Investment Rating - No relevant content provided 2. Core Viewpoints of the Report - The silicon-manganese market is expected to fluctuate. The Fed's September interest rate cut expectation is rising, tariff disturbances are increasing, and market sentiment is fluctuating. Macro - policies support the industry, and the supply - demand situation shows that production has been rising since mid - May, inventory has declined for 5 consecutive weeks, and the cost and profit situation varies by region. Technically, the weekly K - line of manganese - silicon is bearish [6]. 3. Summary According to the Table of Contents 3.1 Weekly Summary - Macro - aspect: The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology is about to issue growth - promoting plans for industries such as machinery, automobiles, and power equipment. The "two major" construction project list of 800 billion yuan and 735 billion yuan of central budgetary investment have been basically allocated. Overseas, there are military threats from the US to Russia, a planned Putin - Trump summit, and the US may impose an additional 15% tariff on Japan [6]. - Supply - demand: Production has been rising since mid - May, inventory has declined for 5 consecutive weeks to a neutral level. The port inventory of imported manganese ore has decreased by 100,000 tons, and the downstream hot - metal production is at a high level. The spot profit in Inner Mongolia is - 120 yuan/ton, and in Ningxia is - 70 yuan/ton. The steel mill procurement price in July has increased, and attention should be paid to the steel - making tender price in August [6]. - Technical: The weekly K - line of the manganese - silicon main contract is below the 60 - day moving average, showing a bearish trend [6]. - Strategy: Treat the silicon - manganese market as fluctuating due to the increasing expectation of the Fed's interest rate cut in September, more tariff disturbances, and volatile market sentiment [6]. 3.2 Futures and Spot Market - Futures Market: As of August 8, the silicon - manganese futures contract open interest was 623,000 lots, a decrease of 35,000 lots from the previous period. The spread between the 1 - 9 contracts was 98, an increase of 24 points. The manganese - silicon warehouse receipt quantity was 76,045, a decrease of 1,809. The spread between the manganese - silicon and silicon - iron main contracts was 274, a decrease of 6 points [12][16]. - Spot Market: As of August 8, the Inner Mongolia silicon - manganese spot price was 5,870 yuan/ton, an increase of 70 yuan/ton. The basis was - 176 yuan/ton, a decrease of 14 points [24]. 3.3 Industry Chain Situation - Production and Demand: The operating rate of 187 independent silicon - manganese enterprises was 43.43%, an increase of 1.25%. The daily output was 27,975 tons, an increase of 715 tons. The weekly demand for five major steel types of silicon - manganese was 125,200 tons, an increase of 1.20%, and the weekly supply was 195,825 tons, an increase of 2.62% [27]. - Inventory: As of August 7, the inventory of 63 independent silicon - manganese enterprises was 161,500 tons, a decrease of 2,500 tons. Inventory in different regions showed different changes [32]. - Upstream: The price of South African manganese ore in Tianjin Port decreased by 3 yuan/ton - degree to 34 yuan/ton - degree, and the Australian manganese ore price remained unchanged at 51 yuan/ton - degree. The electricity prices in Ningxia and Inner Mongolia remained unchanged. The port inventory of imported manganese ore decreased by 110,000 tons to 4.385 million tons. The arrival volume of manganese ore from South Africa, Australia, and Gabon decreased significantly. The northern region's spot production profit was - 85 yuan/ton, and the southern region's was - 410 yuan/ton [38][44][48]. - Downstream: The daily average hot - metal production of 247 steel mills was 2.4032 million tons, a decrease of 3,900 tons from the previous week but an increase of 86,200 tons compared to last year. The Hebei Steel silicon - manganese tender price in July was 5,850 yuan/ton, an increase of 200 yuan/ton compared to June [50].