Final Thoughts
Final Thoughts
Written by John Packard
December 30, 2013
Happy New Year to our members and those viewing our steel industry newsletter for the first time. We wish everyone a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year. We are quite bullish on the North American flat rolled steel industry for the first six months of 2014. Not every segment is clicking on all cylinders – but it appears there will be more than there were last year. That is my opinion.
I will be speaking at a meeting of the AWMI in Chicago on January 16, 2014. If you are interested in attending you can contact Amanda Tomsovic at Amanda.Tomsovic@ArcelorMittal.com. The AWMI is asking for RSVP’s by the 10th (for the venue) but they are OK with walk-ins if someone has a last minute schedule change and would like to attend. Prices are as follows:
$55 – Individual/Corporate Member
$75 – Nonmember
$60 – Member Walk-In
$80 – Nonmember Walk-In
6:00 PM – Networking
6:30 PM – Dinner
7:30 PM – Program (me)
Address:
Erie Café
536 W. Erie St.
Chicago, IL
A note to our members – our developer opened our old website because we saw people were getting “Error 404 – Page Not Found” messages which were related to missing links (old blog postings or articles with links in them from our previous website). This action triggered a number of emails to those whose subscriptions came up for renewal in late November and December as the old system doesn’t know what has transpired in our new system.
You can recognize the email as an outdated one by the logo and the message asking you to contact Sophia (who no longer works for us) for renewal information. Please ignore these emails and our apologies for them being sent in the first place.
Premium Level members should have received a special supplement issue of our newsletter this afternoon. It contains the latest SMU Key Market Indicators as well as Construction Put in Place (CPIP) data.
The November Preliminary Census Data for imports was unusually low. I am holding off on publishing the numbers until I do a little more research and study the numbers further. Most likely, I will publish the data on Friday or Saturday to the front of the website (scrolling newsletter articles and in the “News” tab in the toolbar) for our members to read. We will also publish the data in our Sunday evening edition of our Executive Newsletter.
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Tonight’s issue is a busy one (and long) due to the New Year Holiday. We hope that everyone enjoyed your time off and are ready to hit the street running (or have already hit the street). Our opinion is 2014 will be another interesting and challenging year for the steel industry. As you can tell by our “Future Bright” article we are bullish on the industry at the moment and believe the first half 2014 should be good for hopefully just about everyone in the industry.
That’s today’s opinion – I welcome yours: John@SteelMarketUpdate.com.
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Sincerely,
John Packard, Publisher
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