Comparison Price Indices: Another Week of Mixed Results

Cold rolled saw SteelBenchmarker up $9 per ton to $795 per ton while Platts ($800) and SMU ($815) remained the same last week, compared to the week prior.

Galvanized was down $5 per ton at SMU and Galvalume was off $10. The galvanized number is for .060” G90 while the Galvalume benchmark item is .0142” AZ50, Grade 80.

Both Platts ($680 FOB SE Mill) and SMU ($710 delivered) had plate prices as unchanged. SteelBenchmarker, which only produces their prices twice per month, reported plate as up $15 to $711 per ton, FOB mill.

FOB Points for each index:

SMU: Domestic Mill, East of the Rockies.
SteelBenchmarker: Domestic Mill, East of the Mississippi.
Platts: Northern Indiana Domestic Mill.