The Price Reporters

The Price Reporters
Author: Owain Johnson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2017-08-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1351760556

Every consumer in a modern economy is indirectly exposed to the work of a price reporting agency (PRA) each time they fill up their car, take a flight or switch on a light, and yet the general public is completely unaware of the existence of PRAs. Firms like Platts, Argus and ICIS, which are referenced every day by commodity traders and which influence billions of dollars of trade, are totally unfamiliar to consumers. The Price Reporters: A Guide to PRAs and Commodity Benchmarks brings the mysterious world of price reporting out of the shadows for the first time, providing a comprehensive guide to the agencies that set the world’s commodity prices. This book explains the importance of PRAs to the global commodities industry, highlighting why PRAs affect every consumer around the world. It introduces the individual PRAs, their history and the current state of play in the industry, and also presents the challenges that the PRA industry is facing now and in the future, in particular how regulation might impact on the PRAs, their relationships with commodity exchanges, and their likely direction. This is the first-ever guide to PRAs and is destined to become the standard reference work for anyone with an interest in commodity prices and the firms that set them.

The Steel Industry

The Steel Industry
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations
Publisher:
Total Pages: 242
Release: 1984
Genre: Competition, International
ISBN:

Minerals Yearbook, 2008, V. 1, Metals and Minerals

Minerals Yearbook, 2008, V. 1, Metals and Minerals
Author:
Publisher: Government Printing Office
Total Pages: 1112
Release: 2011-02-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781411330153

Data are provided for more than 80 minerals and materials, along with a presentation of survey methods, summary statistics for domestic nonfuel minerals, and trends in mining and quarrying in the metals and industrial minerals industry in the United States.Virtually all metallic and industrial mineral commodities important to the U.S. economy are discussed. Background information enables analysis of the data, and covers production, consumption, prices, foreign trade, a world review, and an overall outlook.

Steel And The State

Steel And The State
Author: Thomas R Howell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 534
Release: 2019-06-21
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1000313182

The problems of the U.S. steel industry have been a source of public controversy for over twenty years. The industry has grown substantially smaller since the 1960s and hundreds of thousands of steelworkers have lost their jobs. Some steel firms and many steel mills have shut down entirely,profoundly affecting regional economies based on steel and its related industries. An industrial transformation of this magnitude has inevitably given rise to efforts to identify its underlying causes. This book is a contribution to that effort.