Fastmarkets MB’s weekly price assessments for the CIS export steel market will not be published on October 15 because of a public holiday in Ukraine.

The steel scrap sector in the United States still depends on exports to Turkey, a member of the Fastmarkets research team said during the ferrous session at the Bureau of International Recycling (BIR) conference in London last weekend.

Metal Bulletin reviews the major stories affecting the steel market over the past week.

Fastmarkets published its India domestic, export and import prices later than scheduled on Friday April 12, because of a technical issue.

Anshan Iron and Steel Group’s investment in Steel Development Company (SDC) wasn’t the first time a Chinese company had taken a stake in a US steelmaker

The seaborne iron ore market was quiet at the start of the week, although news of output cuts at mills in a key steel production region in north China, shook market confidence.

Seaborne coking coal prices rose on Wednesday April 15 due to active trading in China, though demand from countries such as Japan was heard to be weak amid production cuts implemented by mills.

German steelmaker ThyssenKrupp AG's Russia-based trading company is quitting the carbon steel sector due to the drop in the business's margins, two local trader sources told Steel First on Monday January 27.

The seaborne iron ore market was quiet at the start of the week, although news of output cuts at mills in a key steel production region in north China, shook market confidence.

Turkish long steel producer Koç Metalurji intends to halt steel production to allow maintenance work during the first month of 2019, a mill source told Fastmarkets on Wednesday November 28.