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• Digest
  • A reverse summer lull
  • China steel market booming, but steel demand growth about to slow dramatically
  • Lower USA spot sheet prices; rising prices elsewhere
  • The new 'king' of the mountain -- Mittal Steel
  • 2005 -- A repeat of 2004?
  • Buyers bottom-fishing
  • WSD's replay of its start-of-year industry conference call
  • China's not a long-term threat
  • World hot-rolled band export price may have peaked
  • Volcanic eruption in steelmakers' costs since 2002
  • Steel mills' cash flows surge
  • What's the global steel pricing outlook for the second half of 2004?
  • Hot-rolled band spot pricing remains under pressure
  • USA steel output unusually low. Chinese steel output unsustainably high
  • What's the outlook for Chinese steel production?
  • The herd follows the trend
  • Temperature shows early signs of rising to the boiling point outside of China
  • New Pieces to the Chinese Steel Puzzle
  • Chinese steel production unsustainable
  • Market in early recovery
  • Chinese steel sheet market vacillating at "death spiral" levels
  • Drama intensifies for the world’s #1 steel producer
  • Steel Sheet Shortage Odds Raised to 50%
  • Tenacity and a potent public relations effort wins the prize
  • Hot-rolled band prices still soaring
  • Buyers win two rounds in steel’s boxing ring
  • China’s export tax rebate for steel products cut to 8% from 11%
  • New World Cost Curve published
  • Steel sheet markets "sticky" on the downside.
  • China price remains "disconnected" from the world
  • Hot-rolled band shortage odds boosted to 70% from 65%
  • The HRB steel shortage of 2007
  • Summer swoon. World export and USA hot-rolled band spot prices set to weaken.
  • Chinese steel exports not yet restrained
  • World-Class Steelmakers positioned to win. Winners get stronger. Losers get weaker.
  • World HRB price may bottom as soon as September 2007.
  • World HRB export price upturn likely despite growing Chinese oversupply.
  • Global hot-rolled band market starting to rally.
  • Hot-rolled band shortage likely by, or before, early 2008.
  • World HRB export price may decline temporarily
  • Steel Mill Risks Growing for 2008
  • Steel's Brave New World
  • HRB Export Price May Erupt to An All Time High by a Sizable Margin
  • Steel Price Volcano Blow-Out!
  • The Steel Price ROCKET SHIP
  • The truth: Pricing volatility and disparities widening in steel boom.
  • Scrap Rules
  • China iron ore production increases will reduce demand for imported ore in the second half of 2008
  • Thunderstorm Alert
  • HRB export price may plummet further, bottom out in September
  • Urge to Merge hits China
  • Demand Destruction. Less confidence = less credit = less consumption
  • Steel's Past is the Future. Cyclicality like the old days. MORE RISK - MORE REWARD.
  • Speed Bump in the New Continuum
  • Spot HRB Prices off the Bottom
  • Global output in 2009 likely to drop the most since 1932
  • Steelmakers' financials imploding. Diminished orders and increased price competition.
  • Steels' great LEAP forward. LEAP=Liquidating Excess inventories As fast as Possible.
  • Hot-rolled band export price RISING. However, a price setback may occur this summer due to increased supply.
• World Steel Dynamics' Information Matrix
  • Global Steel Mill Product Matrix
  • Global Steel Export Pricing
  • “Early Warning System” That Works
  • Global Metallics Balances: 2005
  • Global Steelmaking Capacity Outlook
  • The Age of Discontinuity at Steel's Primary End
  • truth_files
  • Financial Dynamics of International Steelmakers
  • Global Steel Alert
  • Financial Dynamics of International Steelmakers
  • Greetings from China: Partial wrap-up
  • Truth & Consequences #6
  • Global Steel Export Pricing
  • Global Metallics Balances
  • GMB Chart 2007
  • World Spot Export Prices
  • capacityreportsample
  • Product Matrix sample.pdf
• Services
  • World Steel Intelligence
  • Private Consulting Studies
  • Steel Pricing Stratagems
• WSD Subscriptions
  • Financial Dynamics of International Steelmakers
  • Chinese Steel Hits the Great Wall: Reduced Growth Prospects: Facts and Figures for 2008-2017
  • World Flat-Rolled Market
  • World Steel Dynamics Publications List - 2002
  • World Steel Dynamics Publications List - 2004
  • North American Iron Ore Industry
  • WORLD STEEL DYNAMICS PUBLICATIONS LIST - 2000
  • World Steel Dynamics Publications List - 2001
  • World Steel Dynamics Publications List - 2003
  • The "Strat" brings the WSD system together in one place.
  • Financial Dynamics of International Steelmakers
  • World Steel Dynamics Publications List - 2005
  • World Steel Dynamics Publications List - 2006
  • Ternium: The Latin Dragon
  • World Steel Publications List - 2007
  • Steel Survival Strategies: Europe VII
  • Indian Steel: The Next Frontier
  • June Conference Highlights 2010
  • World Steel Dynamics Publications List - 2008
  • World Steel Dynamics Publications List - 2009
• WSD Conferences
  • Steel Success Strategies XVI
  • Bluffs, Realities, Strategies
  • The Age of Metallics
  • Winners Emerging
  • Steel Success Strategies XVI
  • Steel Success Strategies
  • SSS XX Hightlights
• Special Studies
  • World Cost Curve for Steel Sheet Plants
  • Plate World Cost Curve
  • Wire Rod World Cost Curve
  • Process-by-Process Costs
  • Steel Scrap Substitute Cost Curve
  • composite web.pdf
  • World Cost Curve for Steel Sheet Plants
• Order Form
  • Order Form Results
• WSD Staff
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• Reports
• World Steel Dynamics
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• Biographies
• Steelmaking Costs - WSD's "Cyclone"
• SteelBenchmarker
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• Special Studies
• Perspectives and Purchasing Stratagems
  • Energy Risk USA Conference - Houston, Texas - Pat McCormick's Speech
  • March 31, 2009: Price Driver #4 Danger Will Robinson Danger
  • January 23, 2009: Price Driver #3 Chinese Steel: Inside the Labyrinth
  • Steel Success Strategies - New York XXIII - Pat McCormick's Speech
  • December 3, 2007: Price Driver #2
  • AMM's Inaugural Scrap Conference - Pat McCormick's Speech
  • September 21, 2007: Price Driver #1
  • September 10, 2007: Are the Mills Losing Their Grip?
  • June 4, 2007: The Penedelum of Trust: Smiling While Preying on the Other Side
  • April 20, 2007: ISRI Convention & Expo Presentation
  • January 23, 2007: AMM Mexican Steel 2007 Presentation
  • January 17, 2007: $100K Strategems Club
  • December 4, 2006: SSS Europe Presentation
  • October 12, 2006: As The World Turns
  • October 9, 2006: Mill Consolidation from a Buyers Perspective
• Daily Steel Benchmark Price. China
• 2009Realities