Spot steel market situation before the Spring Festival

Steel City were up on the 4th for the first time, are mainly caused by the steel price rebound. The price rally was mainly due to relatively tight supply in some areas, heavy volume of transactions, the business opportunity prices. But overall, the steel city has been relatively slow down before the decline, most product prices stabilized stabilized.

The traders are also began to liquidate the year, and then stop quoting. This also led to a further shortage of supply in the spot market. However, due to the influence of the off-season and the Spring Festival, the downstream demand has not improved, but even more sluggish start. Therefore, the overall price rally is difficult now. On the other hand, the central bank announced the RRR is bound to bring good steel prices in the capital market, easing the pressures of cash flow. So, expect before the eve of the Spring Festival, while steel mills in the repair period, the Festival's financial market is expected to improve after the festival, and then have a good cash flow to meet the increasingly competitive market, increasingly stringent environmental and tax rebate cancellation of the export market, as well as the market share after the implementation of the infrastructure investment. But overall steel prices remain weak mainly in the New Year, appeared to stabilize.

During the four-year period of 2011-2014, the domestic steel industry experienced a "2011 oscillating lower prices, 2012 the stock market rises and falls, 2013 rising first and then falling, and the 2014 unilateral down market." Overall, China's steel market is basically in a downward trend, policy incentives and institutional construction occasionally and ongoing capacity elimination and transformation and upgrading, can not stop the iron and steel industry(including seamless steel pipe and welde steel pipe), "sluggish and malaise" industry structure in China.