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Scrap Metal Market Watch: September 2015

Scrap Metal Market Trends Scrap metal prices for crushed auto bodies have declined. We’ve seen a decrease of 8.97% over the past month, a decline of 51.07% over the past year, and a decline of 59.41% over the past two years. This trend may be observed below: Chart | Scrap Metal Market Trends

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Scrap Metal Market Watch: August 2015

Scrap Metal Market Trends Scrap metal prices for crushed auto bodies have declined. We’ve seen a decrease of 7.23% over the past month, a decline of 46.67% over the past year, and a decline of 56.21% over the past two years. Chart | Scrap Metal Market Trends

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Scrap Metal Market Watch: September 2015

Scrap Metal Market Trends Scrap metal prices for crushed auto bodies continues to increase. We’ve seen a increase of 6.23% over the past month, a decline of 45.58% over the past year, and a decline of 48.85% over the past two years. Chart | Scrap Metal Market Trends

WSJ: U.S. Is Awash in Glut of Scrap Materials

From: U.S. Is Awash in Glut of Scrap Materials (WSJ) By James R. Hagerty American companies have complained for the past year that the headwinds of a strong dollar and a slowing Chinese economy are hurting their earnings. For sellers of scrap metal, used cardboard boxes, and other waste, those headwinds are more like a hurricane.

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Scrap Metal Market Watch: 2nd Quarter 2015

Updated through the second quarter of 2015 Scrap metal market watch graph from first quarter 2011 to second quarter 2015. Over last quarter, scrap metal prices for crushed auto bodies declined 22.57%. Over Q2 2014, scrap metal prices for crushed auto bodies declined 47.31%. Over Q2 2013, scrap metal prices for crushed auto bodies declined 54.42%. Over Q2

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Scrap Metal Market Watch: June 2015

Scrap Metal Market Trends Scrap metal prices for crushed auto bodies have finally ceased declining monthly. We’ve seen a increase of 2.67% over the past month, a decline of 43.90% over the past year, and a decline of 52.90% over the past two years. Chart | Scrap Metal Market Trends

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Scrap Metal Prices – Market Watch

Latest scrap metal prices news. Scrap metal prices – above is our market watch graph from January 2012 to April 2015. Over last month, scrap metal prices for crushed auto bodies increased 2.89%. Over last year, scrap metal prices for crushed auto bodies declined 46.99%. Over two years ago, scrap metal prices for crushed auto

Turning a Negative into a Positive

As we all know by now, the scrap metal market has taken a pounding with a strengthening U.S. dollar and slower than expected economic growth internationally, and this is projected to be the case for throughout 2015. However, on the near horizon there is potential bottom-line relief for some firms as new technologies are being

The Emerging International Opportunity from Crushed Autobodies

The scrap metal market has taken a pounding with a strengthening U.S. dollar and slower than expected economic growth internationally, especially with regards to Crushed Auto Bodies. To highlight this, the average price of Crushed Autobodies across the U.S. averaged $178.73 per gross ton as we finished the first quarter of 2015. This is a

The Ethical Competitive Advantage

Despite the poor outlook for scrap metal pricing and declining profit margins for scrap yards as we progress into the year; some within the industry are trying to shift priorities to shift this into an opportunity for their businesses. Some scrap yards are seeing this as an opportunity to gain a competitive advantage by focusing