Prices for steel billet increased in many buying regions and remained steady in most other regions due to continued strength in ferrous scrap prices, although billet buying activity started to diminish last week ahead of year-end holidays and few trades were made.
Global scrap prices continued to climb despite limited volumes being traded. Fastmarkets' daily index for steel scrap HMS 1&2 (80:20 mix), Northern Europe origin, cfr Turkey, ended the week at $296.01 per tonne on December 20, up from $294.63 per tonne on December 16.Recent bookings of CIS-origin billet were, however, done in mid-December...