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28 May 2019
Downloadable Excel files with Fastmarket's pricing and other statistics for the month of May 2019
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28 May 2019
The decline in global prices for coated steels and the extent of that decline is generally evenly spread, reflecting a worsening macroeconomic backdrop for most countries caused above all by a ratcheting-up of trade tensions between China and the USA in recent weeks.
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28 May 2019
Export prices, which peaked a week after our previous issue, have been undergoing the same trend though more modestly and at the time of writing had restored a small premium over our domestic benchmark; just over $10 per tonne FOB.
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28 May 2019
The decline in global prices for coated steels and the extent of that decline is generally evenly spread, reflecting a worsening macroeconomic backdrop for most countries caused above all by a ratcheting-up of trade tensions between China and the USA in recent weeks.
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28 May 2019
Pricing arguments based on input costs are always open to challenge, and always run the risk of recoiling on producers in a market such as the present one, in which upstream coil prices have weakened and show signs of being more likely to fall than recover.
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28 May 2019
US spot base prices have moved down by approximately $50/short ton over the past month to $800-810/ton.