The weather this spring is simply “wonderful”! Then early warmth, then cold, then summer heat! Now we expect cold weather again. Nevertheless, seasonal growth in the construction industry has occurred. Although in absolute values it looks more modest than in the previous two years, the intensification of consumer demand allows metal trading companies to raise prices, trying to bring them to the level of primary market quotations or slightly higher. Metallurgical companies, for their part, maintain ...

Russian rebar market has entered a state of stagnation. Both metallurgical companies and distributors would like to raise prices for this product, but there are no objective grounds for doing so. While demand for rebar exists, with some companies even reporting an uptick in the second half of March (albeit from a very low base), the construction sector, broadly speaking, has not shown signs of a spring revival. Another significant challenge for metallurgical companies is the strengthening ruble ...