Final Thoughts

I am excited for you, our customers. I have been working closely with the CRU Group, and our members will begin to see some subtle changes to the articles we write. One will be the use of CRU data on such items as our Foreign vs. Domestic Price Spread articles, which we will publish in our Sunday evening issue. We will move away from SteelBenchmarker and Platts data as we are quite comfortable relying on our parent company’s data, which is the recognized leader for steel indices. The other thing we are beginning to see is the value of their analysts as we work on projects of our own. For example, this evening we wrote about the new circumvention suits filed by the domestic steel mills. The CRU Group analysts wrote a report at the end of May regarding how the circumvention suits were impacting Vietnam and China exports. We will be able to add their commentary, when appropriate, to our articles.

Even so, CRU will not be influencing the subject matter or articles that we write daily. We will continue to develop our own content and we will continue to be “timely” as we talk about what is important to know today that might impact your buying and selling decisions.