Chinese Steel Profits Recover as Beijing Targets Overcapacity
At the half-year mark, accumulated profits from ferrous metal smelting leaped nearly 14-fold, albeit from the tiny base of the same period last year, according to the statistics bureau on Sunday. Margins found support in June as mills cut output, and raw material costs were generally weaker than product prices.
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