The market for flat products has been suffering from increasing pressure since the second part of last year, as prices have started to trend down globally due to a slowdown in demand. This has happened, nevertheless, as input costs (particularly iron ore prices) have continued to remain elevated, severely impacting …

Last week the iron ore index published daily by Kallanish reached a new five-year record due to continued market concerns about tight supply of the seaborne product. On Thursday, KORE 62% Fe index  reached $108.23/dry metric ton cfr Qingdao, surging almost $10/tonne over four days.

This was the highest level …

Indian steelmakers’ performance is likely to be hampered in the first fiscal quarter through June by slowing domestic steel consumption growth and elevated coking coal prices, according to Indian credit rating agency ICRA.

India is the second-largest crude steel producing country in the world. During the first four months of …

Global steel output from the 64 countries reporting to worldsteel rose 6.4% on-year in April to 156.7 million tonnes. This was driven by a 12.7% surge in Chinese output to 85mt, according to the latest data from the World Steel Association.

Indian production increased 1.5% to 8.8mt but output in …