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Nucor first quarter 2008 earnings

April 17, 2008

Nucor today announced earnings for Q1 2008. EBITDA per ton was $144, up from an average of $130 per ton in 2007. See our EBITDA per ton calculations on the Nerds of Steel earnings spreadsheet. In its press release Nucor indicated that second quarter net income per share would be in the range of $1.55 […]

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US long products imports decline from January and February levels

April 17, 2008

US long products imports will continue to decline in March. Long products import licenses continued their decline to 257,000 short tons in March, compared to February import actuals of 330,000 tons and January actuals of 385,000 tons. Rebar licenses led this decline with March import licenses at 77,000 tons compared to February actuals of 119,000 […]

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Drybulk freight rates information sources; the cost of shipping iron ore and coal around the world

April 14, 2008

If you want to understand freight rates, you might first want to go to an industry overview provided by Genco Shipping and Trading Limited It includes a very good description of how different drybulk materials are shipped and what the rates you will find actually mean. You can find current iron ore and coal freight […]

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US long products imports January actuals meet licenses expectations; February licenses delayed

March 19, 2008

US imports actuals for January were 86% higher than December imports reaching 385,000 short tons, confirming the high level of January imports predicted by license applications. February licenses which are usually updated each Tuesday have not yet been reported. The spreadsheet below will be updated as soon as the new figures arrive. EditGrid Spreadsheet by […]

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Iron ore statistics and commodity pricing

March 12, 2008

A good source of iron ore statistics are reports published by the UNCTAD secretariat (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development) in cooperation with the Raw Materials Group, based in Sweden. You can view all the available publications on the Raw Materials Group website, but you can read the full World Investment Report 2007 by […]

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2007 World Steel Production data by Country

March 6, 2008

Below are the IISI iron & steel production statistics found on the Japan Iron and Steel Federation website converted from pdf format to Excel. The spreadsheet also includes iron production. Clicking on ‘Editgrid Spreadsheet’ will show a full size version available for copying or saving. EditGrid Spreadsheet by user/nerdsofsteel.

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