Steel Products
Correction
Written by John Packard
February 15, 2013
Our apologies to SSAB and our readers–the earnings for SSAB reported Sunday by SMU were in error. The corrected figures are as follows: Operating loss of 665 million SEK in Q4 of 2012 ($104 million) compared with a operating profit of 50 million SEK ($7.82 million) in Q4 of 2011 and for the whole year an operating loss of 96 million SEK ($15 million) compared with an operating profit of 2,512 million SEK ($393 million) in 2011.
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