Steel Products Prices North America
November 15, 2015
Comparison Price Indices: Never Ending Slide Continues
Written by John Packard
Flat rolled and plate prices continued to erode this past week according to the various steel indexes followed by Steel Market Update. With the exception of SteelBenchmarker (who tends to be behind the other indexes due to it only collecting market price intelligence twice per month), all of the indexes are showing hot rolled prices as being significantly below $400 per ton and moving toward a seven year price low for each of the indexes. Steel Market Update HRC average price is at its 7 year low point, last achieved in June 2009 at the height of the Great Recession.
As the week ended, SMU and Platts both had their HR index at $380 per ton ($19.00/cwt) followed by CRU at $387 per ton and then SteelBenchmarker which reported HR as being $406 per ton.
