Steel (US hot-rolled coil)

1 day

+3.32%

1 month

+6.69%

1 year

+58.39%

52-week range 800.00 – 1,275 · last close 2026-09-10

Our analysis of steel (us hot-rolled coil)

Written by Wingzman, with the reporting each piece draws on cited in full.

• The Boring Inputs Are Tight: Aluminium at a 36-Year Low, Steel at $1,200

  LME aluminium stocks are the lowest since 1990 and US hot-rolled coil is half again what it was a year ago. Neither is a battery material. Both are what a battery arrives inside — and they land in the balance of plant, which is bought late.

  11 September 2026 · 6 min read · 3 sources

Background reading

Evergreen explanation rather than dated reporting — how this input is used, and what decides what it costs you.

• From Order to Energisation: How a Battery Storage Plant Actually Gets Built

  Grid storage · 8 min read

Elsewhere in the press

Reporting from the trade and financial press. Links go to the publisher; we did not write these.

• Fall, winter outages to take out 1 mln tons of HRC in US market

  Fastmarkets

• US steel HRC supply fears get ‘no comment’ from mills, legislators

  Fastmarkets

• USA HRC spot price around $840–$850/ton as outages push out lead times

  World Steel Dynamics

Headlines reviewed 2026-09-11.