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• Now Playing: Hot-rolled-steel price hikes are slowing

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• Hot-rolled-steel price hikes are slowing


• posted on Nov 2, 2009

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• Copper prices could hit $4.00 in 2011


• posted on Oct 19, 2009

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• Flat-rolled steel prices have gone up


• posted on Oct 5, 2009

Commodities Update

Robert J. (Bob) Garino
November 06, 2009
BIR Report: Nonferrous crowd more upbeat than ferrous folks
Not much in the way of positive ferrous news to report, given the consensus views...
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CAREER TURNS

Mary Walker
November 03, 2009
ISM membership for sales: What's in it for you?
As many people may have heard, the Institute for Supply Management is voting to...
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MRO & MORE

George Krauter
October 30, 2009
The definition of insanity…or the emperor has no clothes
Albert Einstein is attributed with saying that the definition of insanity is,...
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Back to School

Richard G. Weissman

October 29, 2009
Will the Suppliers in the Room Please Raise Their Hand?
I had the pleasure of making the closing keynote address at the National...
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Leadership

Lara Nichols
October 27, 2009
The ‘Afterward’
As a leader, you are a vital link to the company.  You spend your day talking...
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Government Contracting

Lee Crane
October 27, 2009
Regulatory changes
In her recent piece for GovernmentExecutive.com, Elizabeth Newell does a great job...
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