India seeing growth in aluminium, coal, iron ore and more – IM reports

"While a large number of countries around the world continue to talk about securing raw material supply, China is actually doing something about it."

Solar capacity around the world was rolled out at a record pace, as bargain panel prices helped countries deploy cleaner energy.

"Winter restocking of iron ore among steel mills is still underway, so we believe ore prices will find some support in the near term," analyst says.

CFIUS said on Monday that allowing Nippon Steel to take over US Steel could result in lower domestic steel production.