Fabricators hold a fixed price while the steel is still weeks out. SteelBrief tracks what the market does in between — mill price moves, production, energy and the trade docket — and puts it on two pages every Monday.
Two pages, PDF. No form, no account, no card. Reply and it's yours.
What the mill did while one quote was still open.
$/short ton
Not a dashboard. Not a login. Two pages that tell you where the market stands and what it means for the bid on your desk.
Producer price indices for hot-rolled long and cold-rolled sheet, month over month and year over year, next to weekly domestic output and capacity utilization.
BLS via FRED · AISI weekly
Henry Hub natural gas and industrial electricity — the input costs for electric-arc mills — alongside on-highway diesel, the cost of getting material to your yard.
EIA via FRED
Live USITC steel-product proceedings — antidumping institutions, five-year reviews, Section 232 activity — with the origins named and the stage of each case flagged.
USITC via Federal Register
Every week's figures stay in your sheet and build a consolidated 52-week series — price, production and energy in one place, which no free source keeps together.
Rolling series · no manual entry
Four signals, each scoring one when it crosses a published threshold. The rule is fixed, the thresholds are printed in every issue, and the number is recomputed from source data every Monday — never adjusted to fit a narrative.
Four of four means every input points toward cost pressure and your leverage is at its narrowest. Zero means the opposite.
Mills have room to hold price. The cost pressure this week is coming from freight, not the furnace — a bundled quote hides that, a separated one doesn't.
No demo call, no onboarding, no procurement review. You'll know inside two Mondays whether it's worth $99.
Reply to an email or click below. This week's full brief comes back as a two-page PDF. No form, no card, no account.
Start the trial in one click. You get the live sheet shared to your address and the brief lands automatically for two consecutive weeks.
If it changed how you thought about one bid, continue at $99/month. Cancel yourself, any time — no calls, no retention flow.
If a number ends up in your bid, you should be able to see where it came from and what happens when it's wrong.
No proprietary or paywalled data is redistributed. Every figure in the brief traces to a public federal source, named in the issue where it appears.
Month-over-month, year-over-year and weekly changes are computed from source data, never estimated. The written read describes those figures and introduces no number the data doesn't contain.
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Nucor publishes its spot price Mondays. AISI publishes production. The USITC publishes the docket. It's all public — it's just not in anyone's inbox. That's the whole job.
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