The Steel Index (TSI)About us and our services

History

Steel priceslaunched 2006

Iron ore priceslaunched 2008

Scrap priceslaunched 2010

The Steel Index (TSI) was launched on 25 April 2006 to provide the industry with more frequent, independent and verifiable reference prices

Coking coal priceslaunched 2013

Who we areTSI has a dedicated team of pricing specialists covering the globe from four offices:

Steven Randall Managing Director

Virginia MainwaringGlobal Product Marketing Manager

Vaseem Karbhari Senior Analyst

Phil WhittakerAnalyst

United Kingdom

Jarek MlodziejewskiSenior Analyst

Marina MaliushkinaAnalyst

Mark WiggettManager

China

Singapore

Kurt Fowler Business Development Manager

USA

Who we are

Julie Jiang Senior Analyst

Oscar Tarneberg Senior Analyst

Kennith YanAnalyst

Terry Chuay Manager

Terence Soh Analyst

Tim HardDirector

Serena SengAnalyst

TSI website

Available in:

English

Turkish

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Spanish

Italian

Chinese

Portuguese coming soon!

The methodology Key Features of TSI’s Methodology

• Easily understood

• Inspires confidence in both physical and financial markets

• Achieves broad industry participation (important in market with limited liquidity)

• Daily/weekly averages suitable for monthly physical & financial contracts

• Flexibility to evolve as industry evolves (e.g. time period reducing from weekly to daily

• TSI’s indices are daily or weekly average reference prices for specified products, volume-weighted, based on industry transaction price data

• The data is submitted to TSI via secure, confidential on-line channels by over 590 industry participants buying and selling relevant products (‘data providers’)

• Confidentiality agreements signed with all data providers

• Indices calculated using systematic algorithm, involving normalisation of prices submitted, ‘cleaning’ of data (exclusion of outliers and extreme price points) and volume-weighting of prices in remaining sample

• Fall-back procedures employed in cases of insufficient submissions for current period

• Fully transparent and verifiable processes

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Which steel, scrap, iron ore & coking coal prices do we cover?

Steel Ferrous Scrap Iron Ore Coking Coal

Hot Rolled Coil

Cold Reduced Coil

Hot Dipped Galvanised Coil Plate Rebar Stainless

CRC 304 Ferrous Scrap Iron Ore Fines (5 indices)

Coking Coal (2 indices)

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Southern Europe (domestic) √ (daily) √ √ √ √ In

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USA (domestic) √ (daily) √ √ √ √ InDev. √

Turkey (domestic) √ √ √ InDev.

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India (domestic) InDev.

India (imports) √

China (exports) √ √ In Dev.

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Australia (exports) √ (daily)

TSI Global service• Steel

• Iron ore

• Scrap

• Coking coal

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Daily steel prices for: Hot rolled coil in Northern & Southern Europe Hot rolled coil in the USA

Daily steel document containing: Price histories Average delivery lead-times HRC swaps forward curve graph

Weekly steel prices for: Hot rolled coil (HRC) Cold rolled coil (CRC) Hot Dipped Galvanized (HDG) coil Plate Rebar Stainless CRC

Weekly steel document containing: Price histories Average delivery lead-times with history TSI rebar – billet price spreads

Regions covered: USA Northern Europe Southern Europe Turkey Asia

For more information on TSI’s steel productspecifications Click here

Daily iron ore prices for: 62% Fe fines 58% Fe fines 62% Fe low alumina fines 63.5/63% Fe fines 65% Fe fines

All prices reported CFR China

For more information on TSI’s iron ore productspecifications Click here

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Also included in the daily document: Port stocks price information Chinese domestic iron ore price information Price histories for all products Market commentary Port stock levels and port congestion Freight forward prices Freight rates to China Futures / derivatives outlook

Daily scrap prices for: Turkish imports – HMS#1&2 80:20

Weekly scrap prices for : US Midwest domestic – shredded Taiwanese imports (containerised) – HMS# 1&2 80:20 Indian imports (containerised) – shredded Turkish imports – A3 (short-sea) Turkish imports - shredded Turkish imports – plate & structural

For more information on TSI’s scrap productspecifications Click here

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Also included in the weekly document: Price histories Monthly average prices Market commentary Scrap freight rates Scrap trade data Steel – scrap price spreads Forward curve for Turkish imports

Daily coking coal prices for: Premium hard coking coal – Australian exports Hard coking coal – Australian exports

All prices quoted FOB Australian port

For more information on TSI’s coking coal productspecifications Click here

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Also included in the daily document: Price histories Specification details

Access to TSI’s online Price Analyser*: Compare up to 4 price series on the same graph Switch between selected currencies and volume units Easily view statistics: highs, lows, changes, averages and correlations Export the graphs for use in presentations and reports Download historical prices for use in your financial models**

Access to TSI’s Iron Ore & Steel Freight Rate Analyser** : View the current freight rates for steel and iron ore between regions Understand latest freight rates in the context of historical rates View the current domestic steel prices for specified origins &

destinations* Zoom in and scroll to view regions of interest Print & export the image for use in presentations and reports

* only available only during week 1 of trial and to paying subscribers** only available only to paying subscribers

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Monthly Reviews for Steel, Scrap, Iron ore and Coking coal containing:

Summaries of pricing and trading dynamics in the previous month for the products and regions covered

Review of supply and demand drivers Detailed regional analyses Updates on derivatives and futures markets’ trading A look forward to the month ahead

Click on an image here to view a sample of TSI’s steel, scrap and iron ore monthly

reviews

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Iron oreScrapSteel Coking coal

Steel service Includes everything on slides 10, 14 and 15

Iron Ore serviceIncludes everything on slides 11, 14 and 15

Scrap serviceIncludes everything on slides 12, 14 and 15(except Freight Rate Analysers)

Coking Coal serviceIncludes everything on slides 13, 14 and 15(except Freight Rate Analysers)

Other TSI services

So once you have the prices, what do you do with them?5 ways that companies throughout the steel supply chain use TSI’s reference prices: In contract negotiations Tracking import/export threats or opportunities Benchmarking Index-linked pricing arrangements Price risk management

Companies can enter TSI’s prices into index-based, variable, surcharge or OTC contracts to do the following: Reduce volatility Gain planning visibility Lock in margins Link manufacturing costs to the steel, scrap or iron ore prices to prevent runaway margin

erosion

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Using The Steel Index: TSI’s prices for the products below are used by clients for managing price risk on a daily basis

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Subscribers choose whether to receive daily updates, or weekly summaries, depending on their business needs.

North European HRC

South European HRC

Iron Ore 62% Fe CFR Tianjin

HMS 80:20 Ferrous Scrap CFR Turkey

Financially Settled Swaps Swaps, Options & Futures

Clearing Services Available

TSI’s position with exchanges/clearing housesIron ore (62% Fe fines):• Singapore Exchange (SGX)• LCH.Clearnet• CME Group• Intercontinental Exchange (ICE)• NOS Clearing• Indian Commodity Exchange (ICEX)

Steel (HRC in Europe):• LCH.Clearnet• CME Clearing Europe

Scrap (Turkish imports HMS #1&2 80:20):• LCH.Clearnet • CME Clearing Europe

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TSI’s position with exchanges/clearing houses99% of all OTC iron ore financial contracts cleared to-date have used TSI as the settlement index

Over 445 million tonnes (notional value US$60 billion) of iron ore swaps, options and futures contracts have been cleared since launch (as of 31 October 2013)

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How to start receiving TSI’s prices

You have 3 options:

Take a 3 week free trial of TSI’s Global service. Visit thesteelindex.com/freetrial/ and register today!

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If you buy or sell any of the products that TSI cover you may be eligible to become a TSI Data Provider…contact info@thesteelindex.com for more information

If you have any questions please email info@thesteelindex.com or call UK: +44 (0)20 7176 7667USA: +1 412 431 0584China: +86 21 5110 5490Singapore: +65 6532 2800

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