Market Data
November 30, 2015
Service Center Apparent Excess Results & Forecast
Written by Brett Linton
As part of your Premium level service, Steel Market Update (SMU) analyzes the service center shipment and inventory data and provides a short term forecast for carbon flat rolled steel shipments, inventories and how they will impact pricing over the next four months. This is done through a proprietary model and the results provided are called the Service Center Apparent Excess/Deficit forecast.
First, we want to take a moment to discuss what we did right and wrong with our previous month forecast.
