Steel Products Prices North America

December 1, 2015
SMU Comparison Price Indices: Small, Medium & Large Price Movement
Written by John Packard
Holiday weeks tend to be “quiet” when it comes to steel price movement but, according to the flat rolled steel indexes followed by Steel Market Update, last week was an anomaly. SMU saw the market as being relatively stable with either no movement or small adjustments of $5 per ton on hot rolled and hot dipped galvanized.
As of this past week SMU hot rolled price average was the second highest of the four steel indexes reporting. As our normal readers are aware our range last week on HRC was $360-$390 per ton which when averaged out gave us our $375 per ton number. We will discuss pricing further in our normal Tuesday evening price discussion as well as in our Final Thoughts at the end of this newsletter.


