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AK Steel & SMU + CRU Graphic
Written by John Packard
March 13, 2013
We had a couple of readers ask how our graph would look if we used the CRU hot rolled price assessments versus our own. As you can see by the updated graph there can be some variations between CRU and SMU HRC price assessments but, essentially we follow the same track. The blue line is Steel Market Update hot rolled coil averages while the red line is the CRU HRC index.
John Packard
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