East Asian stainless steel market starts softening on falling demand

摘要

East Asia’s stainless steel market has started to show signs ofweakness, with prices for cold-rolled coil retreating over the pastweek amid thin trading and soft demand.Metal Bulletin’s assessment of prices for benchmark 304 stainless2mm cold-rolled coil was $2,130-2,150 per tonne cif East Asian portsfor the week ended Wednesday January 10, down $20-50 per tonnefrom $2,150-2,200 per tonne cif a week earlier.