The global economy and the steel industry can be portrayed as an arrangement of intermingled dominoes of various shapes and sizes. The placement of the dominoes is important. Those on the outside tend to be the macroeconomic and political event dominoes and those closer to the middle the steel-related dominoes.

Cast iron dominoes 1

A future tall domino 3

2014: Adverse Tough outlook for most steel mills 4

Battle Metallica. Steel scrap users on the defensive so far in 2014 8

2014: More details 12

Deciphering Steel's DNA 17

Chinese steel overcapacity threat likely to be neutralized 18

Which dominoes Likely to Topple? 23

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