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October 2018 | Steel Raw Materials


Will winter cuts kick in: Latest Analysis


In the circumstances of firming demand, it is hardly surprising that Chinese raw materials prices largely surged this week even as import prices were negatively affected by falling freight rates, at least from Western Australia.

Will winter cuts kick in? The National Bureau of Statistics' (NBS) estimates were in-line with CISA data for September and revealed that real demand for steelmaking raw materials remained very firm with the day rate of steel production rising strongly month on month and even more so year on year. Indeed while Chinese output accelerated on this basis the rest of the world fell back and so much so that the growth rate for global production retreated. In the past...

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