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    Final Thoughts

    Written by Michael Cowden


    Hot-rolled coil lead times have been bouncing around four weeks on average since July. HRC prices over that time have fallen from $955 per ton ($47.75 per cwt) to $630 per ton as of last week, a 34% decline.

    The question now is whether we bottom out around $600 per ton. Will sheet prices and lead times rebound, or at least inch up from where they are now, as we get closer to the New Year?

    Michael Cowden

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