Written by executive editor Tom Stundza, Purchasing's Steel Flash Report is a concise monthly round-up of news and events that influence spot-market pricing for steel mill products. The report features the steel market's only definitive reporting of what buyers in manufacturing and construction industries are actually paying - and what they can expect to pay in future - for steel mill products

Latest Steel Flash Report – June 30, 2009, issue preview: 

Transaction prices may have touched bottom

The slippage in monthly average prices for steel mill products has gotten sluggish, suggesting to some that the price collapse is at or near bottom. A group of analysts are writing advisories to investors that the substantial July steel price increases are ‘a done deal.’ That’s not what the buyers in manufacturing and construction are saying.


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