Uranium report19 Mar 2024 20:03
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Weekly Reports | Mar 19 2024
The spot uranium price fell sharply last week as sellers became more agitated.
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-Kazatomprom warns of lack of inventory
-Still no news on Russian uranium sanctions
The recent price fall is attributed to two main factors, TradeTech notes, and they are both related to the psychological impact of triple digits.
When the spot price crossed the US$100/lb mark, utilities, who are not major spot market participants at the best of times, declined to buy at such prices. Speculative entities, now holding vast amounts of physical material, saw triple digits as a good place to take profits, having spent years amassing their inventories.
But even as prices fell back into the nineties, and speculative volumes were cleared, utilities showed little interest, and sellers, mostly intermediaries, became frustrated and started lowering prices. Five transactions were reported last week at prices between US$90 and US$84/lb.