Hot-rolled coil prices in the United States surged above $96 per hundredweight ($1,920 per short ton) for the first time, with market participants projecting that new records will be made before this rally runs out of steam.
Fastmarkets' daily steel hot-rolled coil index, fob mill US was calculated at $96.54 per cwt ($1,930.80 per ton) on Thursday August 12, up by 1.77% from $94.86 per cwt on Wednesday August 11 and 2.70% higher than $94 per cwt one week earlier. Fresh inputs were received across all three sub-indices in a range of $93-100 per...