A slowdown in China is the greatest threat to the global economy, Harvard economist Kenneth Rogoff told BBC in a curious interview in late September. "The [Chinese] economy is slowing down much more than the official figures show." As the ...
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Efforts to reduce China's steel production overcapacity are forging ahead according to plan, the top economic planner said Wednesday. In a medium-term roundup of the drive, the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) said, in an ...
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China's steel production capacity is likely to peak in 2016 as capacity is eliminated, gradually outpacing additions, Fitch Ratings has predicted. The rating agency expects China's steel production capacity to increase to about 1.17 ...
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Global crude steel production in November this year slightly increased by 0.1 percent year on year, amounting to 130.5 million metric tons, while a 4.5 percent decrease was observed on month-on-month basis, according to the World Steel ...
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Ukrainian mining and steel producing group Metinvest has announced its results for the third quarter and the first nine months of the current year. According to its results, Metinvest's crude steel production decreased by 42 percent to ...
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Alacero, the Latin American steel association, has reported that in the January-August period of this year apparent finished steel use in Latin America and the Caribbean totaled 46.2 million mt, up one percent as compared with the same ...
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Argentina’s crude steel production increased 0.3 percent year-over-year in September to 463,800 mt, according to the country’s steel chamber, CAA . Meanwhile, September crude steel production decreased 0.8 percent ...
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Global crude steel production in September this year decreased by 0.1 percent year on year to 134.42 million metric tons, while a 0.4 percent decline was observed on month-on-month basis, according to the World Steel Association ...
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In the third quarter of the current year, the crude steel production of Russian steelmaker MMK Group totaled 3.381 million mt, down 0.3 percent compared to the second quarter of the year, while its crude steel output in the first nine ...
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In September this year, Japanese crude steel production was down 1.1 percent compared to the previous month, while it decreased by 0.5 percent compared to September 2013, totaling 9.24 million mt, according to the data released by the Japan ...
In September this year, Turkey's crude steel output decreased by 3.1 percent year on year and was down by 0.3 percent compared to August to 2.89 million metric tons, according to the Turkish Iron and Steel Producers' Association (TCUD). In ...
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In the January-September period of the current year, the crude steel production of ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih, Ukrainian subsidiary of global steel giant ArcelorMittal, totaled 4.7177 million mt, down one percent year on year, as announced by ...
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Alacero, the Latin American steel association, has reported that in the January-July period of this year apparent finished steel use in Latin America and the Caribbean totaled 40.5 million mt, up one percent as compared with the same period ...
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In the first eight months of the current year, Russia registered a 2.3 percent rise in its crude steel output to 47.2 million mt, a 0.9 percent rise in its pig iron production to 33.8 million mt and a 3.3 percent increase in its rolled ...
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Chinese imports of iron ore in 2015 will increase from a record 900 million mt, an executive at Vale told media Thursday. According to Claudio Alves, global director of marketing and sales at the Brazilian mining company, the Asian ...