Steel Products

Wednesday's Webinar to Feature Futures Expert Andre Marshall
Written by Tim Triplett
July 8, 2020
Steel Market Update’s next Community Chat webinar on Wednesday, July 15, will feature guest speaker Andre Marshall, President and Founder of Crunch Risk, LLC.
Crunch Risk is a price risk management and brokerage firm specializing in a suite of futures contracts in ferrous metals and base metals. Andre has over 25 years of commodity trading and financial risk management experience. He has also been an instructor at past Steel Market Update Managing Price Risk workshops.
This webinar begins at 11 a.m. ET and is free to anyone in the industry. Click here to register.

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