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    May 6, 2025

    SMU annual price review

    Written by Michael Cowden

    We’re conducting our annual price review and want to hear from you!

    Please take a moment to complete our short survey and share your views on how our prices, methodologies, and definitions can better support your work.

    Your feedback plays a key role in how we continue to serve you and the wider steel market.

    Share your views by May 26, 2025.

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    Michael Cowden

    Michael Cowden is editor-in-chief for Steel Market Update. Cowden has covered the steel industry since 2007. He specializes in flat-rolled steel but has also reported on steel long products, steel pipe and tube, and aluminum. Before joining SMU, Cowden held reporting jobs at Fastmarkets AMM in Chicago, the Associated Press in Pittsburgh, and the Cambodia Daily in Phnom Penh. He has also worked as a copy editor and in marketing at the University of Chicago Press. Cowden has a BA in English from the University of Chicago and an MSJ journalism from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. Contact him at michael@steelmarketupdate.com or 724-759-7872.

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