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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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[ 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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[ Steel Tracker ]
12 January 2010
Growth in Chinese steel production and capacity exploded in the last decade and far outstripped the growth seen in domestic consumption. As the dust begins to settle on the economic crisis towards the end of 2010, MBR asks how this imbalance will impact the global steel industry.
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[ Steel Tracker ]
11 January 2010
Significant steel production capacity growth in the last five years will weight heavy on steel price growth over the coming decade, until such a time as demand returns to previous record highs. Raw material tightness will restrict downside potential however
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[ Steel Tracker ]
05 January 2010
MBR's assessment on the east Asian steel maket in 2009 and a look ahead to the key issues concerning the region in 2010.
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[ Steel Tracker ]
05 January 2010
MBR's assessment of the US steel market in 2009 and a look ahead to the key issues in 2010.
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More breaking views...
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17 December 2009
Raw material prices are rising fast for mills and this will bring about some gains in flats prices in the New Year. These gains will not reflect the full extent of the rise in mills' costs, however.
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17 December 2009
Rising scrap costs will support longs prices in to the new year but demand remains very weak
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17 December 2009
MBR's downloadable Excel files for global steel product prices for the week of 17 December 2009.
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17 December 2009
MBR's Global Steel Price Index, global long product and flat-rolled product steel prices for the week of 17 December 2009.
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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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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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14 January 2010
US flat product mills have opted to embrace volatility and attempt to pass on the full extent of cost increases to their customers.
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14 January 2010
North American steelmakers have opted for a pricing strategy with high volatility rather than pursuing sustainable, modest price increases.
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14 January 2010
The challenges are not over for steel long product makers.
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02 December 2009
Domestic mills are hopeful that current prices represent the floor for the latest pricing cycle.
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02 December 2009
North American steel prices to remain weak in December but there are high hopes for Q1 2010.
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02 December 2009
Mills appear to be pinning their hopes on a sustained increase in scrap prices.
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02 December 2009
Downloadable Excel files with AMM Research's North American steel prices and other statistics for the month of December 2009.