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[ Steel Raw Materials ]
31 January 2012
...or what ArcelorMittal Krakow’s investment strategy and the show of muscle in the Strait of Hormuz tell us about the greener future of steel.
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[ Steel Raw Materials ]
11 January 2012
Early November marked the first fall in the Chinese consumer price inflation index below 5%. This is almost 2% off the July peak and confirms that Beijing’s efforts to rein in increasing prices have had their intended effect. The December figure released tomorrow is expected to be down further, around the 4% mark. However, the double-edged sword characteristics of the contractionary monetary policy applied by Beijing since September 2010 have hampered domestic industrial output.
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[ Steel Raw Materials ]
03 November 2011
The global scrap market over the last five months has behaved rather peculiarly: having largely ignored cyclical trends, scrap prices have been fluctuating within a narrow price range. This month, we are investigating the effects of the US dollar/euro exchange rate on the total amount of ferrous scrap imports into Turkey.
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[ Steel Raw Materials ]
14 October 2011
The Chinese spot market made iron ore pricing more transparent in China. We try to shed some light on the still opaque European market