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US steel scrap composite price (busheling/shred), Midwest

$/gross ton price index for #1 busheling and shredded scrap in Midwest market

Feed detail
Measures
$/gross ton price index for #1 busheling and shredded scrap in Midwest market
Source
AMM (American Metal Market) free headline index or SteelBenchmarker.com published index
Access
csv
Cadence
weeklyupdates roughly weekly
Thesis
scrap price leads EAF steel mini-mill input costs and is a real-time proxy for construction/auto demand for steel
Maps to
steel futures (HRC), scrap metal recyclers
Crowdedness
contested
Tier
tA
Ban-risk
ban:low
Where this stands

This is a catalogued data feed with a research idea attached, not a validated edge. Being listed here means it has a specific source and a one-sentence causal mechanism mapped to what it should move — it doesn’t mean it has cleared the five-stage validation gate (point-in-time hygiene, out-of-sample holdout, multiple-testing correction, and the portfolio-layer backstop). As of today, every score on this site is prior-only; zero signals in the catalog have been promoted to “measured” status. See the methodology page for the full validation process and current counts.

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