Growing uncertainty about end-user demand and input costs through 2022 has driven a change in consumer habits in Europe’s aluminium and steel markets, with traders foreseeing a continuation of hand-to-mouth buying going into 2023

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Prices for steel reinforcing bar in the United States ticked up following increase announcements from several domestic mills, and sources expect that uptrend will continue next year if ferrous scrap values move up as anticipated in the January 2020 trade.

Exporters of steel scrap have continued to explore alternative destination markets for sales of deep-sea scrap cargoes because of the slump in prices in Turkey, sources said in the week ended Friday June 24

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Fastmarkets MB has corrected its weekly price assessment for steel rebar bought and sold in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), which was published incorrectly on Tuesday May 28.

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Prices for rebar in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia were stable this week while billet import prices in the UAE narrowed with a new deal, sources told Metal Bulletin on Tuesday January 23.

Fastmarkets MB has corrected its weekly price assessment for steel rebar exported from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) via the Black Sea, which was published incorrectly on Tuesday May 28 due to a reporter error.

Chilean sales volumes of rebar to the domestic market were unchanged in November compared with the corresponding month in 2011.