Hot-rolled coil prices in the United States rose slightly ahead of the US presidential election on Tuesday November 3.
Fastmarkets' daily steel hot-rolled coil index, fob mill US was calculated at $34.21 per hundredweight ($684.20 per ton) on Monday November 2, up 0.2% from $34.13 per cwt on Friday October 30 and 0.3% higher than $34.10 per cwt a week ago on Monday October 26.Heard in the marketDespite an increase in spot pricing, sources...