Final Thoughts

Thursday is New Year’s Day and a Holiday here in the United States. Steel Market Update will not publish on Thursday but we will be back to our normal schedule on Sunday, January 4, 2015. We will publish a Premium supplemental issue of our newsletter on either Wednesday or Friday of this week with Key Market Indicators and a number of other articles. If the US DOC updates the import license data yet this evening (Tuesday’s are when the government generally updates the SIMA data) we will include an article in the Premium supplement on the subject.

In tonight’s issue I have included a tentative calendar for workshops (including two new ones) and our 5th Steel Summit Conference. Over this past year we have been working very hard to attract extremely high quality and qualified instructors for our workshops. We have the capability to do special or custom workshops on a wide variety of topics. A good example is if your company would like to learn more about the laws and procedures regarding trade cases we have an experienced and well known attorney would would work with SMU and our customers. Other areas of interest may be sales or purchasing related, Managing Price Risk, Sourcing, Marketing and many other topics. If you have an area where you or your people would like to learn more on a one-on-one or custom workshop basis please contact me at: John@SteelMarketUpdate.com.