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SMU Community Chat: Join the 600+ folks lining up to hear the latest from Timna Tanners
Written by Michael Cowden
February 6, 2024
Timna Tanners, managing director of equity research at Wolfe Research, will be the featured speaker on our next SMU Community Chat.
The chat will be on Wednesday, Feb. 7, at 11 a.m. ET. You can join the ~600 people who have already registered here.
What we’ll talk about
Galv galore! Scrap Squeeze! Sheet Storm!
Clever catchphrases aside, we’ll talk about increased capacity not only of hot-rolled (HR) coil but also of coated products. How will that tonnage fit into the market: Will it displace imports, collide with older capacity, or ramp up into a domestic market that needs more steel?
We’ll talk about raw materials, too. The sheet market risks being oversupplied as new capacity ramps up. But could the scrap market risk becoming undersupplied as new electric-arc furnace (EAF) mills try to draw on a raw material that was once abundant but won’t be in the future?
Finally, we’ll talk news. It’s an election year. Steel will be a part of the conversation again. Former President Donald Trump said he would, if elected, block Nippon Steel’s $14.1-billion acquisition of U.S. Steel. What does that mean when valuing shares of U.S. Steel in particular and steel assets more broadly speaking?
We’ll take your questions, too. So think of some good ones and throw them in the Q&A!
Editor’s note: Check out SMU’s Community Chat page if you’d like to see recordings of past webinars, including our last one with CRU principal analyst and iron ore expert Erik Hedborg.

Michael Cowden
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