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    Steel Indices Methodologies: Why Prices Can Vary

    Written by John Packard


    Over the past decade more steel indices have emerged in the steel commodities markets. All serve the same objective of providing pricing benchmarks for buyers and sellers of steel – and, in recent years, for the financial settlement of derivative contracts. As the number of indices grew so did the questions surrounding

    the validity of the price assessments. 

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