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World crude steel production slips 3% in April

May 21, 2009

The World Steel Association published the latest global crude steel production data yesterday. It’s now in the Nerds crude steel production spreadsheet below. The data (which as mentioned previously) are often significantly revised in later bulletins show a 3% decline month to month from March to April and 24% decline year on year 2008 to […]

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World Steel Production for March, 2009 & Short Term Demand Forecast

April 27, 2009

The World Steel Association recently published two important sets of data. The first, published about a week ago are the latest figures for crude steel production by country through March of 2009. You can see and use that data in the Nerds spreadsheet below. In aggregate it shows an 8.3% improvement in global output March […]

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World Crude Steel Output for February 2009

March 21, 2009

Worldsteel has published crude steel production estimates for 66 countries around the world that report production. The data is shown in the spreadsheet below. There is a minor decline in output from January, but given the likely revisions to the data – up and down – caution should be taken in assuming a continuing downward […]

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World crude steel output up 5% in January

February 23, 2009

Worldsteel just published the preliminary world crude steel production figures for January 2009. They show a small 5% increase in output from December data entirely attributable to China – a trend that seems to have been shortlived according to this article in the FT on February 20. For non FT-subscribers the article says: Chinese steel […]

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How long might this recession last?

February 23, 2009

The current economic downturn has wreaked significant havoc on the global economy and on the steel industry.  Not surprisingly we are all wondering “How long will this recession last and how bad will it get?”  Of course, no one knows.  But there are some historical precedents and while history may not provide a clear answer, […]

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2009 GDP forecasts and steel demand growth

February 2, 2009

The International Monetary Fund recently updated its global GDP growth forecast for 2009 and 2010.  Not surprisingly, the growth projections were revised downward.   So I thought I’d take the opportunity to update the graph showing the relationship between global GDP and steel demand and to refine the comments I made in a recent post using […]

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