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Steel prices in India continue to go down - 21 Aug, 2008
Indian domestic steel prices continued their down slide on Wednesday. Long products dip is reflected in 60point fall in LPPI. But fall in flat products was lesser with FPPI dipping by just 4 points. Overall, the Indian Steel Price Index fell by 32 points.
Class19-Aug20-AugChange
LPPI90288967-60
FPPI1020610201-4
ISPI96269594-32

LPPI - Long Product Price Index
FPPI - Flat Product Price Index
ISPI - Indian Steel Price Index

Long products

Category19-Aug20-AugChange
PI - TMT87638668-94
PI - WRC94049387-18
PI - Angle88198758-61
PI - Channel90118920-91
PI - Joist85758492-82


Flat products

Category19-Aug20-AugChange
PI - Narrow Plates101401017131
PI - Wide Plates1044010408-31
PI - Hot Rolled10201102010
PI - Cold Rolled1038110358-23
PI - Galvanized972797270


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Price Index - MEA
  Nov-20 Nov-19
LPPI 4867 4867 Same
FPPI 6703 6730 Down
MEASPI 5424 5432 Down
Currency Rates
21 Nov, 2008
USD 1.0000
AUD 1.5848
BRL 2.3862
CAD 1.2616
CNY 6.8253
EUR 0.7988
GBP 0.6712
INR 50.8776
JPY 95.4419
RUB 27.5385
ZAR 10.5561
Source: OANDA.com
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