{"id":19785,"date":"2026-08-19T15:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T15:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/?p=19785"},"modified":"2026-08-20T10:47:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T10:47:01","slug":"e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/19\/e\/","title":{"rendered":"China | Iron Ore Prices Supported by Improving Chinese Steel Demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/elements.visualcapitalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/BHP01-Chinas-Steel-Demand-Through-Time-20240710-share.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.9108621001265136;width:356px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-1 wp-block-paragraph\">The 62% Fe iron ore index rose to $97.72 per tonne CFR Qingdao.<br>Higher hot-metal production improved demand expectations among Chinese steelmakers.<br>The Dalian January iron ore contract increased by 0.78% to 710.50 yuan per tonne.<br>Pellet and lump premiums strengthened as mills sought direct-charge materials.<br>However, weak steelmaking margins continued to limit aggressive forward purchasing.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"567\" height=\"189\" src=\"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/METAREX-NEWS-AGENTS-LOGO1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18968\" style=\"width:122px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/METAREX-NEWS-AGENTS-LOGO1.jpg 567w, https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/METAREX-NEWS-AGENTS-LOGO1-400x133.jpg 400w, https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/METAREX-NEWS-AGENTS-LOGO1-430x143.jpg 430w, https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/METAREX-NEWS-AGENTS-LOGO1-150x50.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 567px) 100vw, 567px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 62% Fe iron ore index rose to $97.72 per tonne CFR Qingdao.Higher hot-metal production improved demand expectations among Chinese<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iron"],"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"Author","author_link":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/author\/ghazizadeh\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/category\/iron\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Ferrious<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"The 62% Fe iron ore index rose to $97.72 per tonne CFR Qingdao.Higher hot-metal production improved demand expectations among Chinese","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19785"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19847,"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19785\/revisions\/19847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metarexllcco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}