For instance, raising the price of steel harms the auto industry, both raising prices and reducing competitiveness.
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The company is also suffering from razor sharp competition, which is driving down the price of steel on world markets.
Workers blame the international consortium for using us when it suited them and then walking away when times got bad and the price of steel dropped.
The price of steel in particular fell by 80 percent between 1880 and 1900, with resulting knock-on effects in the prices of everything from pots and pans through sewing machines to printing presses.
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After a period of high prices, with few exceptions the cost of scrap has been on the decline for more than a year, and Steel Dynamics has managed to increase the spread between the price of steel scrap and its average selling price per ton.
The price of steel, lumber, concrete, health insurance, everything - I've been buying and selling in this location since 1989, and I have never seen in a shorter period of time prices on everything across the board go up at the way that they're going up right now.
Best of all, the mini-mills have a natural hedge against a downturn in steel prices, because the price of scrap steel, their input, rises and falls with their finished product.
We believe that the Long Carbon Americas and Europe division will continue to be the most valuable division for ArcelorMittal, primarily because of the positive outlook for the price of long carbon steel in the years to come.
The gains were a welcome change for Mittal, who dropped out of the top 10 Forbes Billionaires rankings earlier this year after a steep drop in the stock price of his steel company in the past year.
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Although the future looks promising, the currently reality is difficult for auto manufacturers, with only small gains in car sales and headwinds this year and the rising price of steel and oil pushing many buyers to shift to cars that use less fuel.
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This will cost megabucks -- especially if the government opts for long-lasting iron pipes, which are twice the price of less durable steel ones.
In December, steelmakers suffered the doubling of the benchmark price of coking coal, which fuels the blast furnaces that turn iron into steel.
The price of benchmark hot rolled steel has fallen 19% since April.
But, over the past few days a string of gloomy steel production and iron ore price forecasts has trimmed the share prices of all iron ore miners with the potential for worse to come if the price projections are accurate.
Prosecutors have questioned the legality of the price at which Pinchuk acquired the plant, which serves some 15 of the world's largest steel producers, in 2003.
The price of oil, copper, steel, international shipping--even mud--shot up.
If things go well for U.S. Steel, the long equity position likely offsets whatever loss you would take on the CDS. U.S. Steel is far from immune to the price impact of Chinese demand, he says, and as a vertically integrated steelmaker it has exposure all along the process from iron ore to finished products.
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Since the market hit bottom in late December, the price of a ton of hot-rolled steel has risen by more than 50% (see chart).
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Some analysts now expect the steel producers to raise the price of their product to carmakers and the construction industry, adding to concerns about inflation in China.
The Treasury plans to make the new coins from nickel-plated steel instead of the alloy, which has become more expensive as the price of copper has risen in recent years.
Influencing all of the price projection is the outlook for the Chinese economy and its steel industry which has all but stopped expanding.
Car buyers pay for labour, steel and paint, but the price sticker may not reflect the full cost of the noxious goo the car factory spills into a river.
The US, Britain and the EU now all make pennies and cents out of steel with a copper plating as copper rose in price making brass and bronze worth more than face value.
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