Commodity Market Report
Global steel long-term outlook Q1 2018
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Report summary
Our long-term steel demand view remains largely unchanged – but changes to our view of supply and trade mean that we are more bullish on prices. In 2018, we forecast hot-rolled coil at US$904/tonne in the US and US$624/tonne in China. We believe that from 2020 onwards, strong margins will incentivise a return of production and new capacity additions, and together with cost pressures will see prices ease over the medium term. For the longer term steel developments, there are two main themes that have come to the forefront as part of this update – infrastructure investment and global trade disputes. Our flat product pricing outlook has now been further enhanced by new models on flat-product supply-demand balances. You can find these for China, Europe, USA and Brazil in the downloads section of the report.
Table of contents
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China
- Key China forecast data
- Demand
- China property: brace for stagnation
- Why are we not more optimistic about steel demand growth in lower-tier cities?
- And why are we not more pessimistic about growth in higher-tier cities?
- Infrastructure: at the mercy of local government finance
- Total construction: a few more years of gentle demand growth
- Manufacturing: 2017 stimuli will fade
- 12 more item(s)...
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- Steel demand in construction to rise until 2020
- After 2020 demand growth in social facilities won't offset the property sector decline
- Machinery high demand was due to replacement
- Most incentives will disappear in 2018
- BOF route will remain dominant in producing more than 85% of Chinese crude steel output
- Hebei steel capacity will increase after 2020
- 2017 high demand growth will not be repeated
- Infrastructure will decline in the long term
- We forecast steel exports to recover in the medium term
- The capacity cuts in 2016 and 2017 should continue to maintain current utilisation rate level in future
- Malaysia will grow fastest among regional peers
- 17 more item(s)...
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