HRC index tops $78/cwt for 3rd day

摘要

Hot-rolled coil prices in the United States held above $78 per hundredweight for a third consecutive day, with buyers scrambling to acquire steel, market participants said. Fastmarkets' daily steel hot-rolled coil index, fob mill US was calculated at $78.54 per cwt ($1,570.80 per ton) on Friday May 21, down 0.87 from $79.23 per cwt on Thursday May 20 but up 2.52 from $76.61 per cwt on May 14. Thursday's price was the highest since Fastmarkets started covering the market in 1960.