Market analysts have been analysing this year’s trends to compile 2024 global steel market summaries and five-year forecasts for the steel price and market insight provider’s annual Steel Price Outlook report.

Ahead of the report’s December 12 publication, MEPS’s head of price analysis and forecasts, Kaye Ayub, and market analysts Jon Carruthers-Green and Ewan Gilfillan joined managing editor Tom Sharpe to reflect on some of its conclusions.

Following this week’s recording of the ‘How will 2024's top trends shape the market outlook?’ episode, Sharpe said: “Global steel markets have been subdued across the world in 2024, but the factors behind the slowdown – both economic and political – make for some compelling reading. 

“There’s a huge breadth of work reflected in MEPS’s 2024 Steel Price Outlook and it was fascinating to get together with some of the team behind it to discuss the events of the past 12 months and what lies ahead.”

Among the topics explored in the ‘Speaking of Steel: How will 2024's top trends shape the market outlook?’ podcast episode are: