Last week the US presidential elections took centre stage in the global media, as the world waited for the presidential election results between incumbent President Donald Trump and challenger, former vice president Joe Biden.

For the steel market the end of Trump’s presidency could well mean a lot of change, …

The CIS pig iron export market has turned to Asia after the US booked a Russian cargo at the equivalent of around $360/tonne fob Black Sea ten days ago. But despite considerable interest from China returning, none of the CIS mills were able to trade due to their high expectations, …

During the last few months, most market observers have focused their attention on the rapid recovery of steel production in China. As coronavirus impacted the world’s output, China was the first to come out of the pandemic crisis, and its output has been reaching record levels during the last few …

Worldsteel has revised up its forecast for global finished steel demand thanks mainly to China’s stunning rebound following the initial Covid-19 pandemic shock at the start of the year. Global demand is now seen falling only -2.4% on-year in 2020 to 1.725 billion tonnes.

This compares to the -6.4% decline …