Find below the China steel PMI for April courtesy of Bloomberg:
After the wild fluctuations of the past few months, stability certainly suggests that restocking cycles are done. However, there is nothing terribly exciting in the figures. Output, new orders, new export export orders are all still falling. In better news, inventories have started to fall too, as are raw material stocks.
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No sign of anything other than ongoing margin squeezes for steel makers.
