Written by executive editor Tom Stundza, Purchasing's Steel Flash Report is a concise monthly round-up of news and events that influence spot-market pricing for steel mill products. The report features the steel market's only definitive reporting of what buyers in manufacturing and construction industries are actually paying - and what they can expect to pay in future - for steel mill products

Latest Steel Flash Report – October 30, 2009, issue preview: 

Sheet steel prices could be heading down
Prices for a market basket of steel mill products increased this month by just 2.1% after rising by an average 4%/month in the July-September timeframe. What’s ahead? If incoming orders continue to decline, most (59%) of the buyers polled this month—and some executives talking to analysts—see somewhat lower prices for carbon steel products through year’s end.

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