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Slight changes in LME billet market prices

Pasini: Recovery of Italian steel industry has been helped by exports

US rig counts hold steady while Canadian rig counts increase

Growth in steel cargo boosts Port of Cleveland’s total volume in 2011

Vale allowed to open new ore body in Carajás

Serbian government purchases US Steel plant for US$1

HRC inventory increases at South Korean ports

French crude steel output up 2.4 percent in 2011

Ukrainian pig iron exports up 20 percent in 2011

Ukraine’s flat steel imports and exports rise in 2011

EAF plant of ChTPZ starts production of square billets

Bathurst Resources signs lease agreement for coal storage area

Latest freight rate indications from Banchero Costa

Confidence index in Italian construction up 2.5 percent in Jan from Dec

LD X80 spiral-welded steel pipe produced in China for first time

South Korea’s steel plate imports and exports hit record in 2011

China’s average daily crude steel output rises in early Jan from Dec

NLMK sees increased crude steel output in 2011

Bayi Steel’s net profit down 19.31 percent in 2011

Valin Group expects to record a profit for 2011

Severstal to increase hot rolled product shipments in January

Moody’s upgrades Evraz’s rating

Scrap continues to decrease on Orbis Steel Index

Hebei Province’s finished steel exports total 5.872 million mt in 2011

Masteel’s iron ore concentrate output at Taochong hits 360,000 mt in 2011

Lingyuan Steel indicates 50 percent drop in net profit in 2011

Murchison’s iron ore output down slightly in Q4 from Q3

EU-27 commercial vehicle registrations up 10 percent in 2011

Japanese iron and steel sales value up 4.8 percent in 2011

German iron ore import prices up 34.6 percent in 2011

Port of Houston records largest amount of container tonnage in its history

Vale fights Brazilian government over unpaid tax accusations

Metals USA showing large improvements in 2011, bright outlook for 2012

Cliffs Natural Resources updates 2011 expected results and outlook for 2012

Wisconsin State Assembly votes to push mining bill to the State Senate

US Steel and the Serbian government enter talks about the Smederevo plant

US DOC lowers reference prices in suspension agreement with Russia

Metalloinvest’s iron ore output up nine percent in 2011

ArcelorMittal to shed 630 jobs at its Czech subsidiary

Nippon Steel posts net loss for April-December FY 2011-12

MMK’s crude steel output declines in Q4

UK-based Thamesteel enters administration

Timken earns $454 million in 2011 as sales reach record highs

Nucor plans SBQ and flats upgrades, but no expansion into OCTG market

Earnings surge more than six-fold for Nucor in 2011

Brazil’s semi-finished iron and steel exports up 36% in 2011

Mexican automobile sales up 16.34 percent in 2011

New motor vehicle registrations in Turkey down 4.4% in Nov

Cargo tonnage to rise on Mozambique’s Limpopo railway in 2012

First Nickel targets full production at Lockerby by end of 2012


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