Final Thoughts
Final Thoughts
Written by John Packard
June 7, 2019
This coming week will be a full week when I will be in my office. I am ecstatic. As with most weeks, this coming one will be spent trying to figure out what will cause this market to turn around. On Tuesday, I will publish our analysis of service center spot pricing to their end customers based on last week’s flat rolled and plate steel market trends survey. Have we reached the point of capitulation? If so, how much longer can service centers continue to drop prices and dump inventory? For that matter, how much longer (and lower) can the domestic mills go before they have no choice but to try to change momentum and move prices higher (or at least stabilize them)?
One of the other items I am working on this week is finishing negotiations to select our next Steel 101 workshop, which I anticipate will be held during the later part of September.
Registrations for the 2019 SMU Steel Summit Conference are approaching 700 with a little more than two months to go. I want to remind everyone who has not made hotel reservations that as of late last week we still had rooms at the Atlanta Airport Marriott (not the Gateway) which is located one exit south of the convention center. We will be running a shuttle between that hotel and the convention center during the conference. There may also be a few rooms left at the SpringHill Suites Gateway Hotel. You can use the links for the hotels by clicking on them. We also have lodging links on our website for our room blocks: www.SteelMarketUpdate.com/events/steel-summit (click on the lodging tab).
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