Markets & Metals May 2020 Coronavirus Edition

As previously discussed in the last Market & Metals post, we discussed the unknown impacts of the global pandemic and the difficulty forecasting into a wildly uncertain economic horizon.   The roughly 20 drop that we observed at the beginning of the Pandemic in the U.S. has held relatively steady into May.   Average scrap values fell

Scrap Metal Market Mid-March 2020 Update: China & Steel Overproduction

In the last Market & Metals post, it was reported that after two consecutive months of increase, scrap steel marginally dropped by 2.4 percent in price on a national level. This figure is largely insignificant now because at the time, the economic effects of the global pandemic that is the coronavirus had not yet fully

St. Patrick's Day 2020

St. Patrick’s Day 2020

St Patrick’s Day is a religious holiday celebrated by the Irish for over the last 1,000 years. Saint Patrick’s life is explained with the Holy Trinity – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. This legend is often depicted using a shamrock – the Irish Clover. The shamrock is the national flower of Ireland. March 17th is