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Nippon Steel’s proposed $14.9-billion purchase of US Steel (USS) could face additional challenges, with US President Joe Biden publicly cementing his opposition to the already heavily criticized deal
Raw material prices have come under the pressure of falling steel demand around the world since the second half of 2023, and market participants expect the trend to extend into 2024
The United States steel industry lauded the most recent legislation introduced in Congress to clamp down on the surge of Mexican steel imports, which represents a bipartisan bid to the Biden Administration to hold Mexico accountable for the surge in steel imports, sources told Fastmarkets on Tuesday March 12.
Increasing amounts of aluminium are being used to make solar panels, reduce vehicle emissions and upgrade electricity networks in a structural shift to patterns of long-term aluminium consumption
Weak demand in both the UK domestic and export steel scrap markets has created a glut of supply and brought a raft of cheaper offer prices into British steelmakers for monthly delivery settlements in March, trade sources told Fastmarkets in the week ended Tuesday March 12
The recent decline in spot copper concentrates treatment and refining charges (TC/RCs) is startling, with Fastmarkets’ indices falling 38.87% month on month to a record low in February and still falling. But what lies behind the slump, and can anything be done to halt the slide? Fastmarkets investigates
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