Beijing and Shanghai recording no new local covid-19 cases sparked a broad-based rally in metals.

Growth in Australia, faster growth in Brazil and stabilisation in Mainland China's ore output will be the main drivers of growth, Fitch says.

It appears market participants want to see actual demand rising, rather than officials talking about it, writes Clyde Russell.

In China's steel production hub, Tangshan city, 56 of the 126 blast furnaces were shut for maintenance, according to Sinosteel.

Xi Jinping re-iterated the country’s “social and economic development targets” at a business forum.

Renewed covid restrictions dampening overall domestic demand.

Its Rio's first greenfield mine in the Pilbara in more than a decade and a multi-billion-dollar investment.

The dam elimination program has already cost the company $857 million of the $4 billion it projects to spend by 2035.