Iron ore futures close lower-Xinhua

Iron ore futures close lower

Source: Xinhua

Editor: huaxia

2025-05-19 16:56:00

DALIAN, May 19 (Xinhua) -- Iron ore futures closed lower on Monday in daytime trading at the Dalian Commodity Exchange (DCE).

The most active iron ore contract for September 2025 delivery dipped 6.5 yuan (about 90 U.S. cents) to close at 722.5 yuan per tonne.

On Monday, the total trading volume of 12 listed iron ore futures contracts on the exchange was 404,858 lots, with a turnover of about 29.24 billion yuan.

As the world's largest importer of iron ore, China opened the DCE iron ore futures to international investors in May 2018.