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The Steel Strategist #33

The Steel Age

Table of Contents

• Overview: The Steel Age

• Economic outlook

• Demand outlook is bullish

• Key forecasting concepts

• Steel industry global consolidation

• Financially settled steel contracts

• Profitability, cash flow and capital expenditure

• Global steel supply/demand outlook

• Steelmakers’ costs

• Steel pricing outlook

• Global metallics balance

• World-class steelmakers

• USA steel industry situation

• China overview

• India outlook

Subject-by-subject commentaries

• Economic profile and assumption

• Steelmaking capacity, production and operating rates

• Steel pricing

• WSD steelmakers cost systems

• Activity levels in the Developed and Developing World

• Steel orders, inventories, backlogs, shipments and trade

• Mini-mill overview

• U.S. pipe and tube market   

• Global Steel Product Matrix

• Global Steel Alert

• South Korean steel industry

• Plate and hot strip mill capacity/production trends

• Blast furnaces and pig iron

• Directly reduced iron

• Continuous casting capacity and production

• Energy and commodity prices

• Steelmaker's raw materials

• Financial analysis of international steelmakers

• Financial results and investment