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February 2020 | Galvanized Steel and Tinplate Market Tracker


Sentiment turns more pessimistic: Latest analysis


While the sanguine approach would be to treat the news with the same attention given to the annual flu season – an infection which kills as many as half a million people each year without such impact on sentiment or apparent hysteria – the reality is that market dynamics appear to have been altered.

Sentiment turns more pessimistic

In much commentary of commodity markets over the past month, a lot of talk has centred on the coronavirus outbreak that began in China during late 2019 and has since spread to many other countries around the world. Drastic measures have been taken in a bid to limit the spread of the virus, including quarantine measures for whole cities/regions in the case of...

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