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Volatility in pencil ingot market likely to trigger the charge - 22 Feb, 2012
Indian steel ingot market has never been devoid of action even in the worst of times. Colorful concoction of cost escalation, finished demand and the fickleness of market sentiment have kept it agog.

One tends to develop an obscure though distinct correlation with the stock market movements and the pencil ingot prices.

In customary trajectory the pencil ingot prices have been undulating. On the side lines the key determinants of ingot prices viz., scrap, sponge iron and rebars have remained muted with ignorable flickers.

Amidst melting scrap levels and iron ore and rather week TMT demand the rally seems even more sentiment driven when the Stock market has redeemed handsomely based on better economic indicators.

Q4 vibrancy seems to have caught up more with sentiments rather than demand. Efficacy of the rally is neither comprehensible nor digestible but with the international levels for billets and re-bar ticking in the last week it is a classic case of so far so good.

Pencil Ingot
Location Change
Mumbai400
Chennai0
Kolkata0
Mandi500
Raipur200
Alang100
Kanpur0
Rudrapur0
Ahmedabad200
Ghaziabad400
Muzzafarnagar634
Hyderabad1100
Raigarh453
Durgapur272
Nagpur0
Jamshedpur700
Jaipur0
Rourkela453
Bhiwari0
Ludhiana362

Change is on Feb 21st as compared to 17th Feb 2012
Change is per tonne

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