China Steel Intelligence
The coronavirus is a new crisis, yet it is forcing China deeper into the same debate it has been struggling with for a decade. Q1 was expected to be weak, but the recovery in Q2 has disappointed. Now Beijing must decide exactly how and how much it wants to support …
China has seen the mortality rate of its coronavirus epidemic drop but it has had more difficulty supporting an economic recovery in the aftermath. While activity has clearly picked up, it has not yet reached the levels steel traders had hoped for at the start of March. As global markets …
As the coronavirus epidemic in China begins to slow the country is beginning to count the economic cost of the outbreak. For steel as much as any other sector, a lack of economic activity has hit demand hard. But how hard has yet to be seen in available data. In …
Chinese spot steel markets remain quiet and are likely to remain subdued well into February. Government efforts to bring demand forward earlier in the year have been forgotten as the Wuhan coronavirus shutters factories and prevents workers from returning to their city of employment.
Uncertainty will dominate the market until …
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Anonymous
Very good overview of the weekly steel market.
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