Product
January 28, 2021
Written by Jack Marshall
The following article on the hot rolled coil (HRC), scrap and financial futures markets was written by Jack Marshall of Crunch Risk LLC. Here is how Jack saw trading over the past week:
Hot Rolled
The latest tally of active drilling rigs increased in Canada while slightly easing in the US this week, according to oil and gas rig count data published by Baker Hughes.
As substrate costs continue to rise, Nucor Tubular Products announced a price increase for heavy structural sections (HSS), mechanical, and piling products.
Iron ore shipments from US ports on the Great Lakes slipped in September from a year earlier, according to the Lake Carriers Association (LCA).
The Department of Commerce thinks revoking the anti-dumping duty (AD) orders on cut-to-length carbon steel plate from China and Russia would lead to the recurrence of dumping at significant margins.
Algoma Steel Group Inc. expects the first heat from its second electric-arc furnace (EAF) in the coming days, even as it forecasts a quarterly EBITDA loss and a 20% decline in shipments.