Steel Raw Materials: Weekly Market Tracker is a unique, easy-to-read independent market analysis and independent price forecasting service for all the major key steel raw materials including: ferrous scrap grades, pig iron, iron ore, DRI/HBI, freight, coking coal and coke, energy, zinc, tin, ferro-alloys and energy.
It includes strategic analysis and insights of leading industry companies from our international team of steel raw material specialists and expanded coverage of the Metal Bulletin Research Raw Materials Weighted Price Index providing a clear and instant view of current price trends.
Breaking Views
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21 May 2013
Turkish merchants successfully negotiated scrap prices down to levels last seen in October 2012.
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30 April 2013
Turkish scrap buyers resumed their purchasing activity of US East Coast-origin material, at reduced prices compared to week-ago levels, as US scrap exporters reluctantly accepted lower bids from Turkish mills to secure new sales volumes.
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23 April 2013
A growing number of Chinese steel producers have made list price cuts for finished steel prices.
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More breaking views...
May 21 2013 Issue
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21 May 2013
Turkish merchants successfully negotiated scrap prices down to levels last seen in October 2012.
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21 May 2013
Trading activity remained thin with Chinese steel mills and coke producers preferring to purchase competitively priced domestic material.
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21 May 2013
Trying times for high-cost western miners, as they see their company value adjust downwards.
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21 May 2013
While Chinese ferro-alloy production fell 9.3% month-on-month to 2.8m tonnes in April, production for the year-to-date rose to 11m tonnes.
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21 May 2013
Chinese production is up by an ominous 16% year-on-year in April, despite a 7% fall in prices.
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21 May 2013
Any real pick-up in steel and scrap demand in this region will be subdued as Japanese export prices retreat from the depreciation of the yen.
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21 May 2013
European finished steel output remains at relatively low levels given lacklustre end-user demand.
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21 May 2013
Roundup of MBR's freight statistics for the week of 21 May 2013
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Downloadable Data
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21 May 2013
Downloadable Excel files with MBR's pricing and other steel raw materials statistics for the week week of 21 May 2013