This week’s report contains updates on:

• Total supply of steel products
• Unemployment U3 vs. U6
• Bank lending standards and Federal Reserve Senior Loan officer survey  
• U.S. scrap exports
• Scrap benchmarks
• Steel Demand Indicators 

This update tracks over 100 data streams. It attempts to provide a concise update of the most significant information of the week with graphs to provide a long term perspective of the long products market. Any forward looking statements in the “Steel Market Update” are based on government statistics and private sources that we believe to be credible but please treat with caution as unanticipated events, data inaccuracies or unconsidered information could result in materially different outcomes.

This week’s report includes updates on:

• Global steel capacity utilization:
• Apparent long products domestic supply:
• Construction put-in-place: 
• Census Bureau construction data:
• Durable goods orders:
• Consumer Confidence: 
• Portland cement consumption:
• Regional job creation:
• Steel Demand Indicators:

This update tracks over 100 data streams. It attempts to provide a concise update of the most significant information of the week with graphs to provide a long term perspective of the long products market. Any forward looking statements in the “Steel Market Update” are based on government statistics and private sources that we believe to be credible but please treat with caution as unanticipated events, data inaccuracies or unconsidered information could result in materially different outcomes.