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China steel rebar inventories continued to accelerate increases this week.

A total of 118 vessels carrying 19.46 million mt of iron ore arrived at major Chinese ports during January 10-16, SMM estimates. This was up 3.17 million mt mt from the prior week and 6.85 million mt from the same period last year as mines stepped up year-end shipments.

Social inventories of lead ingots across Shanghai, Guangdong, Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Tianjin fell 700 mt from last Friday January 15 to 55,800 mt as of Monday January 18, an SMM survey showed. The stocks were down 1,100 mt from last Monday January 11.

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As of January 11, domestic social aluminium inventories, including SHFE warrants, stood at 676,000 mt, an accumulation of 80,000 mt.

Inventories of refined nickel in the Shanghai bonded areas decreased 1,600 mt from a week ago and stood at 21,200 mt as of January 15, showed SMM data. 

Social inventories of silicon metal across Huangpu port, Kunming city and Tianjin port rose 3,000 mt to 83,000 mt as of Friday January 15, SMM data showed. 

Social inventories of lead ingots across Shanghai, Guangdong, Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Tianjin declined 2,500 mt from last Friday January 8 to 56,400 mt as of Friday January 15, an SMM surveyed showed. This was down 400 mt from Monday January 11.

U.S. business inventories increased in November, supporting expectations that inventory investment was likely the main driver of economic growth in the fourth quarter.

Nickel ore inventories across all Chinese ports decreased 268,000 wmt from January 8 to 8.87 million wmt as of January 15, showed SMM data.