Ticker	Volume	Price	Price Delta
DJIA	15,303.10	+8.60	0.06%
S&P 500	1,649.60	-0.91	-0.06%
Nasdaq	3,459.14	-0.27	-0.01%

Ticker

Volume

Price

Price Delta

DJIA

15,303.10

+8.60

0.06%

S&P 500

1,649.60

-0.91

-0.06%

Nasdaq

3,459.14

-0.27

-0.01%

Ticker	Volume	Price	Price Delta
STOXX 50	2,764.29	-12.49	-0.45%
FTSE 100	6,654.34	-42.45	-0.63%
DAX	8,305.32	-46.66	-0.56%

Ticker

Volume

Price

Price Delta

STOXX 50

2,764.29

-12.49

-0.45%

FTSE 100

6,654.34

-42.45

-0.63%

DAX

8,305.32

-46.66

-0.56%

Ticker	Volume	Price	Price Delta
Nikkei	14,612.50	+128.47	0.89%
Hang Seng	22,618.70	-51.01	-0.23%
S&P/ASX 200	4,983.50	-78.95	-1.56%

Ticker

Volume

Price

Price Delta

Nikkei

14,612.50

+128.47

0.89%

Hang Seng

22,618.70

-51.01

-0.23%

S&P/ASX 200

4,983.50

-78.95

-1.56%

Pacific Metals to Increase Ferro-nickel Output by 21% This Year

By Jae Hur & Ichiro Suzuki - 2012-05-25T06:15:35Z

Pacific Metals Co., Japan’s largest ferro-nickel producer, said it plans to increase output by 21 percent this year after an earthquake and tsunami disrupted production in 2011.

Output will rise to 34,800 metric tons in the year that started on April 1 from 28,700 tons a year earlier, Kosuke Naradate, a company spokesman, said by phone today. The Hachinohe plant in Aomori prefecture, northern Japan, has an annual capacity equivalent to 44,000 tons of refined nickel, according to the company.

Nippon Steel & Sumikin Stainless Steel Corp., 80 percent- owned by Nippon Steel Corp. (5401), has a 10 percent stake in Pacific Metals. Nippon Steel is Japan’s biggest steelmaker. Nickel, used to strengthen stainless steel, fell 0.8 percent to $16,960 a ton at 2:15 p.m. Tokyo time.

To contact the reporters on this story: Jae Hur in Tokyo at jhur1@bloomberg.net; Ichiro Suzuki in Tokyo at isuzuki@bloomberg.net

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Jarrett Banks at jbanks15@bloomberg.net

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