Comments for Brazil's Steelmaker Gerdau Counting on World's Growing Steel Hunger at http://www.brazzilmag.com , comment 0 to 3 out of 3 comments http://www.brazzilmag.com Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:39:24 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/9748/1/#pc_16139 Apologies for the oversight! HELVETIA = Roman name of current Switzerland >:( HIBERNIA = Roman name of current Ireland :) Perhaps I should also check out my levels of bile - LOL :o - AUGUSTUS Mon, 11 Aug 2008 21:31:17 +0100 http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/9748/1/#pc_16137 I truly do not believe that one could realistically find many Steel producing enterprises – as well as major suppliers of ANY other material required by heavy industries - which would seriously not share Gerdau's views, hopes & fears regarding their (acknowledged) dependency on China's needs & requirements for its vast industrial projects. These fears are indeed very likely shared not only by the previously mentioned companies across the world, but also by the very governments where any such supplier may reside… During his many emotional outbursts across the “BRAZZIL” sites, always eager to humiliate, challenge or otherwise dispute ANY view or opinion involving Brazilian concerns, our "beloved" Swiss Blogger appears to get occasionally blinded by some obvious details, and therefore fails to acknowledge the fact that, in some cases, his criticisms may actually have nearly universal application, thereby dismissing the sole intended purpose of attacking and humiliating Brazil and/or Brazilians. Whenever stumbling upon the opportunity for yet another degrading strike presents itself for his ignoble purposes, our “unmentionable” but valiant “Knight Templar of modern Hibernia” appears to access some contraption, drawer, or international database to access “ready-to-use” lists containing extensive amounts of ‘exceedingly boring” statistical data, containing key details to make or enhance his spiteful intents of the moment. Conceivably there may be occasions, when his eagerness is “such” that he may fail to obtain the necessary data in order to substantiate a certain claim, which in this particular case would undoubtedly represent a “disproof” of his latest allegation (above). Such evidence would have to include information which “I n d i s p u t a b l y” proves that Gerdau is indeed the only (or one of the few) major Raw Material suppliers (across the Planet) which does not worry about (and hinge upon) decisions currently made in Beijing and/or the headquarters of key Chinese industrial concerns… Perhaps too much “bile” has risen from the stomach (of our adoring friend) this time around, and may have rendered his mouth way too bitter, thereby impacting upon his “better judgment’? I wonder… - AUGUSTUS Mon, 11 Aug 2008 21:19:09 +0100 http://www.brazzilmag.com/content/view/9748/1/#pc_16134 August 11, 2008 Brazilian stocks declined, led by steelmakers, on concern prices will fall after China, the biggest producer of the metal, said exports surged to a record. Gerdau SA, Latin America's largest steelmaker, dropped to the lowest level in four months after China said international sales rose 38 percent from June to an all-time high. ``China was the only country that had the capacity to increase production and it looks like they did,'' said Bernardo Lobao, a metals and mining analyst at BNY Mellon Arx, which manages the equivalent of $5.66 billion in Rio de Janeiro. ``If China exports more, it will increase the amount of steel available in the world and affect the price.'' - ch.c. Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:07:19 +0100