NEW YORK, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- U.S. steelmakers, in a healthy resurgence through most of 2008, have seen output cut drastically since September, the American Iron and Steel Institute said.
BEIJING, March 6 (UPI) -- Steel production increases in China are expected to slow in 2008 in part due to 344 plants shuttered for environmental and efficiency concerns, Xinhua said.
TOKYO, Sept. 18 (UPI) -- Japanese officials are asking China to cut its steel production capacity, Yomiuri Shimbun reported Monday.
LONDON, Feb. 24 (UPI) -- Global steel industry profits are soaring amid mergers and booming growth in China. Britain's Integer Research Ltd. said Friday that almost all of the world's leading 55 steel producers showed operating and net profits in their latest annual financials.
KIEV, Ukraine, Oct. 24 (UPI) -- Mittal Steel Co., the world No. 1 steel concern, will pay $4.8 billion to buy Ukraine's biggest steel company.
SHENYANG, China, Aug. 17 (UPI) -- Two of China's biggest steelmakers will merge to create a company that will produce an estimated yearly output of 20 million tons of steel.
CHICAGO, April 27 (UPI) -- The Chicago Fed Midwest Manufacturing Index fell 1.4 percent during March to 118.8, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago said Wednesday.
CHICAGO, April 5 (UPI) -- The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Tuesday reported its Midwest manufacturing index rose 1.4 percent to 120.0 in February.
LONDON, Oct. 26 (UPI) -- London's Mittal family plans to spend $4.5 billion to buy U.S.-based International Steel Group, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.
BEIJING, Sept. 11 (UPI) -- China's National Bureau of Statistics says China's manufacturing sector recorded $55.4 billion in August, up 15.9 percent from the year before.
