Pricing and Purchasing Webcast: How Will Prices React to Slowing Chinese Growth in 2011?
8 Sep 2010 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. (New York Time) Webcast		Register for this Event MyInsight subscriber of this service, click here. Not a subscriber of this service? Please click here to request an invitation to this event.
After a glimmer of hope in the first half of this year, growth in the U.S. economy will slow sharply through the remainder of the year. We also expect slower growth for China's economy, as their massive stimulus plan is slowly reduced, the real estate market cools down, and domestic inventories are reduced. What will this mean for the buying environment for your key materials and costs heading into 2011? After a strong end to 2009 and first quarter of 2010, commodity prices have tumbled more than 15% since mid-April, according to our Global Insight Industrial Material Price Index. Have commodity prices bottomed out? Or will the lack of strong demand from key consumers, such as China, auto, and construction markets translate into further price weakness over the next year? In this Pricing and Purchasing Webcast, we will present our latest third-quarter 2010 baseline outlook and highlight some of the near-term risks impacting the forecast. We will also take an in-depth look at the Chinese economy and its specific impact on metal prices. Please join us on Wednesday, 8 September for a discussion of the third-quarter 2010 forecast release. Presented by: John Mothersole, Principal, Pricing and Purchasing Service, IHS Global Insight John Anton, Director, Steel Service, IHS Global Insight Todd Lee, Group Director, Global Economics, IHS Global Insight Can't make this date? We offer playbacks of all our Webcasts. For a replay of this Webcast, register for the "live" event, and you will receive instructions to access the playback in the confirmation e-mail.