SBB(Steel Business Briefing) PLATTS

ABOUT S&P GLOBAL PLATTS

S&P Global Platts is the leading independent provider of information, benchmark prices and
analytics for the energy and commodities markets. For over 100 years, we’ve brought clarity and
transparency to the energy and commodities markets, enabling companies, governments and
individuals to act with conviction.

- DAILY NEWS
- INDICATOR
- STEEL NEWS
- WORLD STEEL REVIEWS
- LATEST STEEL PRICE

The Steel & Raw Materials package is comprised of over 850 ferrous prices including:

 Iron ore (includes Platts IODEX and TSI 62% Fe iron ore prices – widely-accepted by both
the financial and physical communities in the settlement of contracts)
 Steel products (rebar, billet, HRC/CRC etc) by region: Asia, EMEA and Americas
 Ferrous scrap – includes shredded delivered Midwest US, HMS, A3 – US domestic, Turkish
and Indian imports
 Ferroalloys including ferrochrome, ferromanganese, ferromolybdenum, ferrosilicon,
ferrovanadium and many more
 Metallurgical coal
 Steel/ferrous metals spreads
 LME ferrous
 Non-Platts ferrous
 Foreign Exchange data including FOREX rates

 Formulate and clarify your ideas about major issues and understand evolving trends by
accessing a wealth of news and information including import and export data, and supply and
demand outlook.
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Platform Publications/Reports
Newsletters Steel Market Daily
Steel Daily Briefing
Steel Price Report Package
Metal Daily
World Steel Revies
The Steel Index
Desktop Platts Metals Alert (Real Time Service)
Analytics Steel data & analytics (Price trend Analysis)
China Analytics
Market Data Metal Package
Steel package
Raw materials Package
Steel & Raw Materials Package
 Daily Briefing
Benefits
 Gain new perspectives through our in-depth insight and analysis of the global steel markets
including flat, long, stainless and semi-finished products.
 Make better informed decisions by accessing daily steel news and prices covering HRC, CRC,
stainless and semi-finished steel.
 Save valuable time looking for information and spend it enhancing your company’s strategy.
 Find your next opportunity by analyzing your forward curves and identifying diverse trading
patterns, steel markets pricing trends and characteristics.

Key Price Assessments include:

 Platts - Hot-Rolled Coil (HRC), Cold-Rolled Coil (CRC), steel plate, rebar and stainless steel prices
for Americas, Europe, Turkey and Asia
 Platts and TSI - HRC, CRC, rebar and other finished and semi finished steel
 Platts wire rod, beam, merchant bar, billet and pipe and tube assessments
 Steel Mill Economics: Global steel spreads
 Turkey Arc Steel Tracker

World Steel Review

Benefits
 Develop an inherently strong pricing and business strategy by referencing daily spot price
assessments backed by a time-tested and proven methodology.
 Trade, write contracts and negotiate transactions with confidence by understanding price
drivers and fluctuations in the raw materials and finished steel market.
 Uncover opportunities and threats by analyzing your forward curves for iron ore, coking coal
and steel, and identifying diverse trading patterns, pricing trends and characteristics.
 Track your company’s performance in relation to your competition with crucial market insights
and prices from an independent source.
 Keep in touch with policy and regulations so you can better understand global trade flows and
ensure compliance within your company
 Select and retrieve the data that's relevant to your business with access to the Platts Price
Analyzer.

Features
 Weekly snapshot of the top stories affecting the global steel markets
 World steel price tracker
 World steel price ‘Heat Map’
 Markets Watch (by product)
 Focus on key regional events
 Steel company profiles
 Comment and analysis
 Available in English, Portuguese, Spanish, Chinese and German
 Steel Market Daily
Benefits
 Develop an inherently strong pricing and business strategy by referencing news and daily spot
price assessments from Platts and The Steel Index including the unified Platts IODEX and TSI
62% Fe iron ore price benchmark.
 Trade, write contracts and negotiate transactions with confidence by understanding price
drivers and fluctuations in the ferrous metals market.
 Track your company’s performance in relation to your competition with access to over 80 daily
and weekly key price assessments for the steel, coking coal, ferrous scrap and iron ore
markets.
 Formulate and clarify your ideas about major issues and understand evolving trends by
accessing a wealth of news and information including import and export data, and supply and
demand outlook.
 Focus on the information that’s important to your business and leave the trawling through
technical journals, legislative updates, key conference summaries and market data to us.

Price assessments include:

 Unified Platts IODEX and TSI 62% Fe Iron ore fines benchmark
 Platts Coking coal, premium low volume FOB Australia & CFR China
 Platts Ferrous scrap HMS CFR Turkey
 TSI Coking coal Premium hard, Australian exports
 Swaps assessments for iron ore and coking coal
 Dry bulk freight assessments and differentials
 Steel Mill Economics: Global steel spreads
 Turkey Arc Steel Tracker