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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 raw material analysts, as well as a constantly changing selection of highlighted articles from our dedicated market research report: Steel Raw Materials: Weekly Market Tracker. This report is dedicated to providing market analysis, statistics and price forecasts for the iron ore, scrap, pig iron, DRI/HBI, coking coal, coke and freight markets.
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Breaking Views
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18 June 2009
MBR has compiled a list of 12 indicators which we believe are important enough to point in the direction of an easing in the recession.
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16 June 2009
week's round-up of steel raw material prices and forecasts
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More breaking views...
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30 June 2009
MBR understands that poor demand has forced certain CIS pig iron producers to exit the market impacting pig iron prices
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30 June 2009
There has been no major change in Indian spot export prices for iron ore fines over the last week, although higher quotes for shipping to China have pushed up cfr prices to major Chinese ports.
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30 June 2009
China produced 126.41m tonnes of coke from January through May, down by 7.4% year on year from the same period last year. Coking coal prices are likely to increase.