Last week, …

The World Steel Association (worldsteel) reported that global crude steel output from its 64 reporting countries was 146.7 million tonnes in January 2019, up 1% year-on-year.

China produced 75mt in the month, a hike of 4.3% on January 2018 and still over half of the world’s crude steel output. China’s …

The new European permanent safeguard system for steel. in place since the beginning of February, is continuing to create problems. Some specific quotas have already been filled until the end of June and the market is still struggling to understand how much impact these will have on the global sector. …

Last week billet prices across the globe continued to perform well, but, for many observers, the peak might be near.

CIS billet mills increased their offers to $460-470/tonne fob Black Sea at the end of last week. They have seemingly no intention to compromise with buyers whose bids at lower …