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    January 6, 2025

    No movement in Nucor’s weekly HR spot price

    Written by Laura Miller

    While steel news may be starting 2025 off with a bang, Nucor’s consumer spot price (CSP) for hot-rolled (HR) coil is not: The steelmaker is keeping its weekly published price unchanged for yet another week.

    Nucor’s HR coil CSP has been at $750 per short ton (st) since mid-November. And it will remain there for this week, the Charlotte, N.C.-based company said on Monday morning.

    The spot price for HR from Nucor’s joint-venture subsidiary California Steel Industries (CSI) is also unchanged at $810/st.

    SMU’s average HR price has also seen little change since November, hovering around $675/st, according to our interactive pricing tool.

    We will update our price indices this week and publish the prices in Tuesday’s newsletter.

    Laura Miller

    Laura Miller is a reporter and editor for Steel Market Update. She has held various editorial positions with steel industry publications, associations, and mills since 2007. She joined the SMU team in 2022. She is a member of the Association of Women in the Metal Industries and a past-president of the AWMI Pittsburgh Chapter. She holds a BA in Latin American Studies from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania.

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