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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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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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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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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January 31 2012 Issue
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31 January 2012
Mills will look to rebuild inventories and coupled with increases in crude steel production and other demand indicators including automobile production provided a sense of optimism in December.
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31 January 2012
Global steel production will be on par to slightly higher this year, as EU mills report output reductions and US mills struggle to raise production over 75-77% capacity.
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31 January 2012
China's domestic prices have been supported by mills buying lower Fe-content material as a way of slowing, but not reduced their capacity.
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31 January 2012
China looks to increase domestic ferro-chrome production through boosting imports of chrome ore, and in turn, becoming less dependent on imported ferro-chrome.
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31 January 2012
Higher prices are unjustified against a fundamental backdrop characterised by oversupply and a macro outlook that is weak and uncertain.
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31 January 2012
In the past, moderate correlation can be drawn between the volume of scrap exported to Turkey and the US East Coast export prices for HMS No.1 $/tonne FOB.
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31 January 2012
Improved market sentiment after the holiday period and increased access to credit, should raise demand for pig iron in China.
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31 January 2012
Roundup of MBR's freight statistics for the week of 31 January 2012
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31 January 2012
Economic Indicators: 31 January 2012
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Downloadable Data
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31 January 2012
Downloadable Excel files with MBR's pricing and other steel raw materials statistics for the week week of 31 January 2012