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Time to buy a new car? Steel prices up 66% this year?

Hintza
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edited 31 January 2011 at 2:34PM in Motoring
Steel prices are set to jump by up to 66 per cent this year, top executives and analysts have said, a burst of inflation on a scale the industry has suffered just once in the past 70 years.

In a set of forecasts provided for the Financial Times by 16 steel experts around the world – including six senior executives and 10 industry analysts – projections of the year-on-year rise in prices by the end of 2011 average 32 per cent.

That would make the price of the average grade of steel as defined by Meps, a UK steel consultancy, $970 per tonne by December.

If this turns out to be correct, the rise in steel prices during the year will be the second-biggest jump since modern records began in the 1940s.
See graphic: http://www.ft.com/cms/69a3a8da-2707-11e0-80d7-00144feab49a.jpg
See full article:-http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/758d30da-2720-11e0-80d7-00144feab49a.html#ixzz1Cc8lvVQU

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  • Strider590
    Strider590 Posts: 11,874 Forumite
    edited 31 January 2011 at 1:54PM
    More like time to worry about going out to your car in the morning, ice scraper in hand and finding nowt but a set of tyre's and some rubber hoses :rotfl:
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  • vaio
    vaio Posts: 12,287 Forumite
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    Strider590 wrote: »
    More like time to worry about going out to your car in the morning, ice scraper in hand and finding nowt but a set of tyre's and some rubber hoses :rotfl:

    reminds me of when I had an alfasud
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