The latest news and price moves to start the Asian day on Tuesday July 17.

Editor Vera Blei looks at the main news covered by Steel First over the past week.

The downtrend in the global billet market continued over the past week due to weak demand, except in China, in line with the weakening Turkish scrap import market.

The latest news and price moves to start the Asian day on Tuesday May 8.

Editor Vera Blei looks at the main news covered by Steel First over the past week.

Stricter winter production cuts in China from October are expected to have a significant influence on the entire domestic steel market in comparison with the last heating season, industry sources told Metal Bulletin this week.

China’s crude steel output declined in mid-January after a short-lived rise at the start of the month.

The latest news and price moves to start the Asian day on Thursday August 16.

Base metals prices are down across the board by an average of 0.4% on the London Metal Exchange this morning, Thursday September 28. Volume has been average with 6,139 lots traded as of 06:44 BST.

Steel billet prices in the global markets went down slightly or remained stable, except in Southeast Asia, during the working week from Monday February 2 to Friday February 9.