Steel Products Prices North America
January 30, 2018
Raw Material Prices Volatile in January
Written by Peter Wright
Of the four raw materials tracked by Steel Market Update, scrap and zinc prices advanced in January, iron ore took a small step back and coking coal declined by 10 percent.
Each January, Bloomberg and U.S. Global Investors compile their Periodic Table of Commodity Returns. Figure 1 shows the returns of commodities each year of the past decade. Coal and zinc were No. 1 and No. 2 in 2016 and were both in the top five in 2017.
