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Markets & Metals May 2020 Coronavirus Edition
As previously discussed in the last Market & Metals post, we discussed the unknown impacts of the global pandemic and the difficulty forecasting into a wildly uncertain economic horizon. The roughly 20 drop that we observed at the beginning of the Pandemic in the U.S. has held relatively steady into May. Average scrap values fell
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Scrap Metal Market Mid-March 2020 Update: China & Steel Overproduction
In the last Market & Metals post, it was reported that after two consecutive months of increase, scrap steel marginally dropped by 2.4 percent in price on a national level. This figure is largely insignificant now because at the time, the economic effects of the global pandemic that is the coronavirus had not yet fully