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The LME aluminum price has overcome an important resistance level at $2,300/mt but it remains to be seen if support can be built above that level.

Aluminum Roundup: IAI reports aluminum industry greenhouse gas emissions declined in 2022

What's the steel market talking about at present? The post Steel market chatter this week appeared first on Steel Market Update.

This latest SMU steel market survey is a snapshot of a sheet market inflecting lower. A significant 43% of survey respondents said that the hot-rolled (HR) coil market has already peaked. Compare that to only 8% when we released our last steel market survey on Jan. 5. The post Final thoughts appeared first on Steel Market Update.

It’s been a sloppy start to the year for domestic hot-rolled (HR) coil and ferrous scrap markets. One of the loudest things to happen in HR this year might be something that didn’t happen at all. Namely, Nucor didn’t follow competitor Cleveland-Cliffs higher when Cliffs announced a price hike to start the year. The post Final thoughts appeared first on Steel Market Update.

SMU doesn’t do forecasts. We leave that to our colleagues at CRU. But we’re pretty good at surveys, and we’ve got a great group of readers. That’s why we decided to ask you what’s in store for 2024. The results are below, along with some insightful comments in italics. The post Final thoughts appeared first on Steel Market Update.

The iron and steel foundry industries consume about 17% of the ferrous scrap in the US each year. They purchase several grades of scrap in common with steelmakers, such as shredded and turnings. But, most of the grades are much more restrictive than what larger mills require.  The post Ferrous Scrap: The Iron Foundry Market appeared first on Steel Market Update.

After a meeting Friday at the White House, the EU and US issued a joint statement noting no concrete movement towards a Global Arrangement on Sustainable Steel and Aluminum. The post US, EU To Continue Talks on Steel, Aluminum Deal After White House Meeting appeared first on Steel Market Update.

The summer cycle has brought more focus around the uncertainty of where HR prices are headed.   Spot indexes continue to bleed lower despite price hikes from sheet mills. Market talk is of still lower prices as the gap grows between the slow-moving index versus expectations for HR future prices declines. (The index likely reflects smaller, […] The post HRC Futures: Supply/Demand Uncertainty Pushes HR Forward Curve Lower and Flatter appeared first on Steel Market Update.

Steel Manufacturers Association (SMA) president Philip K. Bell will be joining as a panelist and presenter at the 2023 SMU Steel Summit Conference Aug. 21-23 in Atlanta. “I’ve been attending Steel Summit for over a decade, and each year it gets bigger and better,” Bell said in a sitdown with SMU. This year he will […] The post Steel Summit 2023 Speaker Focus: Philip K. Bell appeared first on Steel Market Update.