Week in Review: Steel Prices, Greenland’s Resources and U.S.-India Trade

• U.S. housing starts picked up in August.
• Falling steel prices are weighing on the financial outlooks of U.S. steel companies.
• MetalMiner’s Stuart Burns on Rusal’s prescient efforts to reduce its carbon emissions and the positive effect such efforts can have on a company’s brand.
• Global copper production was down through the first eight months of the year.
• The U.S. steel sector’s capacity utilization rate ticked down to 80.6%.
• Burns on Greenland’s melting ice sheet and what that means for the potential exploitation of the country’s vast mineral resources.
• MetalMiner’s Belinda Fuller took a look at the price spread between U.S. and Chinese steel.
• Despite questions about the effort’s feasibility, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has raised the country’s renewable energy target.
• While the U.S.’s ongoing trade discussions with India do not get as much attention as its talks with China, the two countries are locked in a similar discussion over trade surpluses, tariffs and market access.

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