{"id":293606,"date":"2026-02-12T05:05:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T05:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/293606\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T05:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T05:05:06","slug":"nickel-prices-rose-after-indonesia-slashed-weda-bays-2026-quota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/293606\/","title":{"rendered":"Nickel Prices Rose After Indonesia Slashed Weda Bay\u2019s 2026 Quota"},"content":{"rendered":"

l stainless and EV supply chains. The quota news also landed during a broader base-metals bounce helped by a weaker US dollar.<\/p>\n

Why should I care?<\/p>\n

For markets: Policy is now part of the nickel thesis.<\/p>\n

Nickel isn\u2019t just about battery demand anymore: supply expectations can shift fast when the top producer changes quotas at a single mega-asset<\/a>. That adds regulatory risk to the usual mix of costs, new mines, and EV adoption. And if Indonesia keeps treating ~$18,000 a ton as a pain threshold, rallies may hit a self-imposed ceiling more often than in metals with fewer policy levers.<\/p>\n

The bigger picture: Indonesia is managing the EV chain from the ground up.<\/p>\n

Indonesia wants more value added at home, steering ore into domestic processing to build a battery-materials hub. Quotas help it balance two goals \u2013 supporting miners while protecting downstream industries like stainless steel and EV components from price spikes. At the same time, the dollar-driven pop in other metals is a reminder that macro forces can amplify \u2013 or mute \u2013 supply shocks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"l stainless and EV supply chains. The quota news also landed during a broader base-metals bounce helped by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-293606","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}