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Monday Market Monitor - India - WEEK 11 - Heat is on - 22 Mar, 2010
Indian domestic steel prices continued to exhibit strong upward sentiments last week, but some signs of weakening were visible for long products in the later part of the week.

After 16 days of mad rush, which started on Holi, the upward movement in the Indian steel market paused for the first time in last 16 days. The prices movement on March 17th 2010 was subdued, especially for long products, but recovery was again seen on Friday.

But the frenzied buying of steel both by users and traders, in order to secure there requirements at lower prices and attempt to make huge profits respectively, may continue to fuel the market. Indications of huge price hike in April by Indian steel majors would also continue to prop up the sentiments.

As per unconfirmed reports, most of the flat product producers have undertaken mid month price increase of INR 500 per tonne to INR 1000 per tonne and are likely to go for major increase on April opening, citing cost pressures.

Since the beginning of March, when Indian steel majors announced their pricing for the month of March, the market prices have surged by more than 10%.During this period Indian Long Product Price Index ILPPI went up by 768 points or 11% to 7537 whereas Indian Flat Product Price Index IFPPI surged by 661 points or 9% to 8234. The overall Indian Steel Price Index INDSPI went up by 717 points or 10% to 7869.

This recent surge in market prices have brought up the price levels closer to the PEAK of July-September 2008 with gap narrowing to just about 20%

Last week trend
Class12-Mar19-MarChange%
ILPPI723474532193.0%
IFPPI790981272182.8%
INDSPI755577742192.9%

ILPPI - Indian Long Product Price Index
IFPPI - Indian Flat Product Price Index
INDSPI - Indian Steel Price Index

Long Products
Category12-Mar19-MarChange%
PI - TMT708673112253.2%
PI - WRC767078691992.6%
PI - Angle681470652513.7%
PI - Channel689571482523.7%
PI - Joist634765902423.8%

PI - Product Index

Flat products
Category12-Mar19-MarChange%
PI - Narrow Plates757177691982.6%
PI - Wide Plates781679741582.0%
PI - Hot Rolled771279512403.1%
PI - Cold Rolled846486952302.7%
PI - Galvanized849486511571.8%

PI - Product Index

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1. Input material

Melting scrap
80:20
HMS
LocationChange
Chennai7%
Kandla0%
Kanpur 0%
Kolkata-4%
Mandi-5%
Mumbai4%

Change is on March 19th 2010 as compared to March 12th 2010

Alang
ProductSizeChange
Plate cuttings1"2%
ShipsMixed2%

Change is on March 19th 2010 as compared to March 12th 2010

Pencil ingot
LocationChange
Ahmedabad3%
Bhiwari0%
Durgapur0%
Ghaziabad2%
Hyderabad0%
Jaipur-1%
Jamshedpur10%
Kanpur 2%
Kolkata5%
Mandi1%
Mumbai4%
Muzzafarnagar1%
Nagpur2%
Raigarh0%
Raipur 2%
Rourkela5%
Rudrapur1%

Change is on March 19th 2010 as compared to March 12th 2010

Pig Iron
LocationChange
Agra4%
Jallandhar4%
Kolkata4%
Raipur 4%

Change is on March 19th 2010 as compared to March 12th 2010

Sponge iron
LocationChange
Bellary5%
Kolkata5%
Raigarh15%
Raipur 6%
Rourkela5%

Change is on March 19th 2010 as compared to March 12th 2010

2. Long products

TMT
Fe 415
12mm
LocationChange
Ahmedabad3%
Chennai4%
Delhi 4%
Indore 0%
Kanpur 3%
Kolkata2%
Mandi1%
Mumbai3%
Raipur 2%

Change is on March 19th 2010 as compared to March 12th 2010

WRC
SWR14
5.5/6
LocationChange
Chennai3%
Delhi 3%
Kanpur 1%
Kolkata4%
Raipur 2%

Change is on March 19th 2010 as compared to March 12th 2010

ANGL
Grade A
65X65X6
LocationChange
Ahmedabad4%
Bangalore6%
Chennai3%
Delhi 3%
Indore1%
Kanpur 3%
Kolkata5%
Mandi3%
Mumbai3%
Raipur 2%

Change is on March 19th 2010 as compared to March 12th 2010

CNHL
Grade A
75/40
LocationChange
Ahmedabad4%
Bangalore6%
Chennai3%
Delhi 3%
Indore2%
Kanpur 4%
Kolkata4%
Mandi2%
Mumbai3%
Raipur 2%

Change is on March 19th 2010 as compared to March 12th 2010

JSTI
Grade A
250X125
LocationChange
Ahmedabad4%
Bangalore6%
Chennai3%
Delhi 3%
Indore2%
Kanpur 4%
Kolkata4%
Mandi2%
Mumbai3%
Raipur 2%

Change is on March 19th 2010 as compared to March 12th 2010

3. Flat products

HRC
Tube
2.5x1250
LocationChange
Ahmedabad4%
Bangalore2%
Chennai4%
Delhi 4%
Indore3%
Kolkata1%
Ludhiana 2%
Mumbai1%

Change is on March 19th 2010 as compared to March 12th 2010

Patra
LocationChange
Delhi 3%
Ludhiana 7%
Mandi3%

Change is on March 19th 2010 as compared to March 12th 2010

Plates
Grade A
8X1250/1500
LocationChange
Chennai4%
Delhi 5%
Kanpur 2%
Kolkata1%
Mumbai1%

Change is on March 19th 2010 as compared to March 12th 2010

Plates
GRADE B
12-20X2500
LocationChange
Ahmedabad0%
Bangalore2%
Chennai1%
Delhi 4%
Indore6%
Kanpur 2%
Kolkata1%
Mumbai1%
Raipur 5%

Change is on March 19th 2010 as compared to March 12th 2010

CR
DSK
0.63x1000
LocationChange
Ahmedabad5%
Chennai4%
Delhi 4%
Kanpur 1%
Kolkata1%
Mumbai3%
Pune3%

Change is on March 19th 2010 as compared to March 12th 2010

GC
100Gms
0.4
LocationChange
Bangalore2%
Chennai3%
Delhi 3%
Kanpur 2%
Kolkata0%
Mumbai3%

Change is on March 19th 2010 as compared to March 12th 2010

4. Indian Export Levels

Export levels of HDG and PPGI from Indian mills surged further last week
Change is on March 19th 2010 as compared to March 12th 2010
Change is in USD per tonne

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Price Index - MEA
  Jul-22 Jul-15
MLPPI 4394 4394 Same
MFPPI 5774 5774 Same
MEASPI 4812 4812 Same
Currency Rates
30 Jul, 2010
USD 1.0000
AUD 1.1132
BRL 1.7585
CAD 1.0363
CNY 6.7747
EUR 0.7660
GBP 0.6408
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