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CIS focus

World Steel News

World Ferro-alloys News

CIS Steel News

CIS Coal News

Main features:

• monitoring over 20 product segments: raw materials (scrap, pig iron, iron ore, DRI & HBI, coal & coke), steel semis (billet, slab, round billet) and finished steel products (flats and longs, including sections), steel tubes and pipes (welded and seamless);

• covering more than 45 regional markets: Middle East (Turkey, UAE, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Jordan and others), North Africa (Egypt, Algeria), Central and Eastern Europe (Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Czech Republic and others), Italy, Spain, CIS markets (Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan) and export activity of CIS mills, China and South East Asia (Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand, Taiwan, Philippines, South Korea), as well as India, USA, Brazil and others;

• giving the Freight rates in five major basins: Black Sea, Azov Sea, Mediterranean, Caspian Sea and Far Eastern area (updated weekly);

• providing access to on-line database of historical prices going back one year and containing over 400 weekly updated price series for abovementioned products and regions.

Subscription includes:

• online access to news and market reports with one year archive of historical price series;

• daily newsletters and weekly reports delivered as PDF and HTML files to your email.

weekly news service

Main features:

• focusing on key events in CIS raw material, steel product and pipe markets;

• regular price monitoring of main product segments: raw materials (scrap, iron ore, blast furnace coke), semi-products, finished products (HR sheets, coated products, rebar, sections, welded and seamless pipes);

• news on largest producers: production results and plans, capacity expansion and modernization projects, mergers and acquisitions, trading restrictions;

• historical database of key quotations in main markets: domestic prices from producers, import and export prices, traders' prices;

• volume statistics: raw material market balance (Russia, Ukraine), steel product and pipe market balance (Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan), demand structure in main consuming industries;

• short-term outlook of raw material and steel product prices in domestic markets of Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan with description of key influencing factors;

• on-line CIS producers' capacity database.

Subscription includes:

• on-line news and database service;

• weekly pdf report;

• monthly pdf report and appendix on statistics (excel format) to your e-mail;

• printed copies (option).

weekly news service

Contents:

• regular price monitoring (above 60 weekly updated quotations), including key global benchmarks on bulk ferro-alloys, noble ferro-alloys and ores;

• review of the situation in markets for bulk ferro-alloys with prices under already made contracts;

• news on changes in production volumes, consumption, production capacities, as well as launching new projects in all segments of ferro-alloy markets and raw materials used in ferro-alloy production;

• monitoring of domestic and foreign trade;

• monitoring of markets for raw materials used in ferro-alloy production;

• news on governmental control measures in ferro-alloy industry (export/import duties, licenses, quotas, etc.).

Regions:

Europe, CIS, SEA, Africa, America, Middle East, Australia and Oceania

Market segments:

SiMn, FeMn, FeSi, FeCr, Mn ore, Cr ore, FeV, FeMo, FeTi, metal manganese

Service includes:

• on-line news and price database for two last years (weekly update);

• weekly pdf report.

weekly news service

Contents:

• updated information on contract and spot prices in the markets for coking coal, steam coal and anthracite coal;

• news and brief reviews on current situation in coal industry;

• news on coal production capacity changes and coal consumption in CIS;

• updated information on railway and freight rates for coal shipments;

• news on governmental control measures in coal industry;

• information on main changes in the management structure of key coal market participants;

• historical database of key quotations in main markets: domestic prices, import prices and export prices in CIS.

Regions:

Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, CIS exports

Market segments:

cocking and steam coal, anthracite

Service includes:

• on-line news and database service;

• weekly pdf report to your email.