The US sheet steel market remained stable but sluggish Monday as buyers sought price direction following last week's Thanksgiving holiday. One buyer said he believes the hot-rolled base price is at or close to bottom at about $630/st. ...
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US sheet steel deals are getting progressively tougher to find as producers find renewed confidence in their order books and their lead times, market sources said Thursday. One service center buyer said $670/st is the most common ...
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US steel coil prices fell slightly Thursday, with buyers saying some mills are becoming increasingly hungry and willing to cut deals. One top-tier mill source said the bulk of his hot-rolled transactions were being done between ...
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US steel sheet prices stayed flat on Tuesday as mills remained reluctant to offer lower prices, but sources noted that downward pricing pressure is continuing to develop. Platts maintained its hot-rolled coil assessment at $675-685/st, ...
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The US steel sheet market remains relatively steady, though a lack of buyer urgency may be eroding the bottom range of hot-rolled pricing, market sources said Monday. A top-tier mill source said import buying has picked up but domestic ...
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The US steel sheet market was relatively quiet on Friday because many were out of the office before the Easter holiday, though one top-tier mill indicated it would be pushing higher prices after the weekend. The top-tier mill plans to ...
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Integrated producers may have hit a cost floor on sheet products, and an increase is looking more and more likely, market sources told Platts Thursday. "We're at the point where these mills are going to be at their breaking point or their ...
US flat-rolled prices may be slowly inching up as a result of the increases announced last week, though at least some market sources said their primary effect has been to stall late-year price erosion. "It's tightened the range back up, ...
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