Metal Markets: Understanding Demand for a Key Input to Manufactured Goods and the Impact on the Carload Sector

Wednesday, September 15th, 2021 — 2PM-3PM EDT | 11AM-12PM PDT

Presented by Sean Davidson - Davis Index

Metals are a vital input to many manufacturing and industrial processes. With loadings performance often closely tied to the overall performance of the end markets the metal goes into and the underlying economy, this session looks at the metals market and its direction going forward.

About your speaker:

Sean Davidson is the Founder and CEO of Davis Index, a price reporting agency covering the global ferrous, base metal, and secondary markets.

Davis Index's team of 65+ experts based in the US, Canada, Mexico, Spain, India, Ukraine and Singapore deliver over 1,300 price indexes from across the world.

At the start of this decade, Sean reinvigorated scrap coverage across the Metal Bulletin Group as global editor of raw materials at American Metal Market, Metal Bulletin, and Steel First, based out of New York.

During his time at AMM/MB, Sean launched the index for America’s first scrap futures contract: the CME busheling contract.

In 2015, Sean moved to Houston to build and launch Argus Metal Prices as its global editor, a role he exited in early 2019. Since then he has focused on building Davis Index into an industry leader for recycled metals and alloys market intelligence.

Prior to his roles in commodities, Sean served different journalistic and entrepreneurial roles in the United Kingdom, Middle East, and India. His career has spanned print, online, television, recreation, hospitality, and technology.

This webinar is part of the FTR 2021 Transportation Conference Virtual Webinar Series and is just one of many great events slated for the month of September.  Click the image below to see the full agenda and to register for the complimentary FTR State of Freight webinar on October 14th!