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This section displays the latest market developments and up-to-the-minute breaking views direct from MBR’s team of steel analysts, as well as a constantly changing selection of highlighted articles from all our market research reports dedicated to the global steel industry: Steel: Weekly Market Tracker, North American Steel Markets Monthly and Coated Steels Monthly. These reports each specialise in providing market analysis, statistics and price forecasts for the global carbon steel sector.
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Breaking Views
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[ Steel Tracker ]
24 February 2010
The woes of the construction sector in Dubai and its impact on the steel market hit the headlines in 2009, but the region is far more complex than that. While de-stocking and falling steel demand was a core feature of Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) markets, other markets in the region such as Egypt and Iraq boomed. MBR examines the regional market and steel price outlook in more depth and identifies key drivers for the region in 2010 and beyond.
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[ Steel Tracker ]
22 February 2010
Work was due to get underway over the weekend on the mothballing of the blast furnace at Corus' Teesside Cast Products (TCP) plant in the UK. MBR looks at what went wrong for TCP and the prospects of finding a buyer.
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[ North American Steels ]
27 January 2010
MBR has noticed a structural shift in service center stock holding as inventories will be held low as service centers concentrate on becoming part of the value-added supply chain, offering processing services rather than just warehousing. MBR believes that while reducing price risk and adding value are the main reasons behind holding less inventories, financing concerns will weigh on stocks as well. Credit limits will control the amount of product at distributors.
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More breaking views...
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04 March 2010
Higher iron ore prices are supporting the makret in China, while scrap is performing this function elsewhere
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04 March 2010
Steel mills are pushing for higher prices across regional markets, despite the fragility of ‘real’ end-use demand. Raw material costs are at the heart of this dynamic; restocking buying is also providing support for prices. MBR expects prices to trend higher in coming weeks
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04 March 2010
MBR's downloadable Excel files for global steel product prices for the week of 04 March 2010.
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04 March 2010
MBR's Global Steel Price Index, global long product and flat-rolled product steel prices for the week of 04 March 2010.
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06 January 2010
Tinplate prices are set to increase in the early months of 2010 on the back of rising raw material and substrate costs.
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06 January 2010
The combination of rising substrate prices and higher zinc costs have pushed up January base price and extras.
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06 January 2010
Downloadable excel files with MBR's pricing and other coated steels statistics for the month of December 2009.
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06 January 2010
The end of the year offered some encouragement to EU coated producers.
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04 March 2010
Mills will be largely successful in pushing through higher prices in the short term.
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04 March 2010
Prices are moving sharply higher again this month on the back of rising raw material costs.
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04 March 2010
Steel long product buyers get a reprieve in March with no planned price hikes.
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04 March 2010
Downloadable Excel files with AMM Research's pricing and other North American steel statistics for the month of March 2010
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04 March 2010
Scrap prices are likely to rise in the USA in the coming weeks
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04 March 2010
AMM Research's roundup of North American economic indicators for the month of March 2010.
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04 March 2010
Chinese coil prices bounced back in response to surging orders.