Steel Products Prices North America
December 3, 2015
SMU Lowers HRC Index as Bottom End of Range Weakens
Written by John Packard
Steel Market Update continues to speak with both buyers and sellers of steel on a daily basis. As this week has worn on, we uncovered a number of price points below what we reported on Tuesday. We feel that we need to advise our readers of our findings and adjust the lower end of our range accordingly.
We began to pick up signs of $330 and $340 offers last week on hot rolled spot out of the domestic steel mills. This week we found the number of buyers involved had grown and we feel compelled to report this and adjust our range to $340 to $380 per ton ($17.00/cwt-$19.00/cwt) with an average of $360 per ton ($18.00/cwt) FOB the Mill.
