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Written by John Packard
January 7, 2013
Platts may be providing a hint as to what we will see coming from the other indices as we enter a full week. SMU did see weakness in our steel survey but we have decided not to make any adjustments in our index until Tuesday evening since last week was 1) a short week and, 2) the first week back from holiday. Steel Orbis and SteelBenchmarker were both silent and CRU only had minor adjustments.
John Packard
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