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SMU Comparison Price Indices: Another Week of “Going Nowhere in the Hurry Blues”
Written by John Packard
March 11, 2013
With the exception of the CRU, all of the other indexes followed by Steel Market Update showed a change in the price direction on all of the flat rolled products followed by SMU. Steel Orbis and Platts both had items increase by as much as $20 per ton where SMU and CRU were a bit more muted which would be normal the week after a price increase announcement was made. SteelBenchmarker did not report new prices this past week
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