For steel buyers & sellers: Navigate BDI freight shock, rupiah collapse, and Vietnam’s domestic price surge with week-on-week analysis. Download Report.

This weekly intelligence briefing compares the latest seven-day trading window against the prior week, giving you more than a snapshot—it shows you the direction and speed of market change. If you source or sell HRC, billet, slab, or stainless steel into Vietnam, the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia or Malaysia, this report isolates the decisions that will either protect your margin this quarter or erode it.

For Procurement Managers, This Report Helps You Solve:

How the Baltic Dry Index breaking through a critical multi-year barrier will mechanically add freight costs to your CFR quotes within two weeks—and exactly which flat steel products you must book immediately before the pass-through lands.
Why the rupiah’s crash to historic lows has made Indonesian billet imports unworkable at current USD offer levels, and what alternative sourcing or hedging strategies can keep your supply chain intact.
Whether Vietnam’s domestic HRC price surge makes newly emerging import channels from alternative regional origins a better bet than chasing expensive domestic allocations.

For Sales Managers, This Report Helps You Solve:

Which ASEAN currency has collapsed so severely that buying activity has effectively shut down, and where you should urgently re-route your billet and slab tonnage to protect margins.
How high you can push HRC export offers now that the cost stack—freight, iron ore, and domestic mill margins—is fully aligned, and the Vietnam-China price spread has widened to the widest in a year.
Whether the tentative recovery in one key ASEAN currency signals a window to re-engage previously frozen buyers, or whether the risk of relapse still warrants caution.

Every page is built on a rigorous week-on-week comparison framework: last week’s price, this week’s price, the driver that moved it, and a next-week forecast with concrete upside and downside scenarios.

The Core Value Proposition of This Report:
The BDI has smashed through a critical barrier not seen in years, the Indonesian rupiah is in freefall, and Vietnam’s domestic mills are raising HRC prices at the fastest pace since early 2026—this report’s week-on-week analysis shows exactly which markets are thriving, which are seizing up, and what you must do before the next shock lands.

*This report includes full week-on-week data comparison tables and a dedicated deep-dive section analysing price, policy, currency, logistics and sentiment shifts between Week 18 and Week 19.*

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