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It's not all bad, if you know where to look.

Publication: Metal Center News
Publication Date: 01-JAN-09
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: It's not all bad, if you know where to look.(FROM THE EDITOR)(Editorial)

Article Excerpt
THE VEHEMENT THUMBS-DOWN on this issue's cover says it all. Findings from the latest Metal Center News Outlook survey show that service center executives are much less optimistic about their prospects for the year ahead than at any other time since MCN began tracking industry sentiment in 1999. For the first time in the past decade, the number of respondents who identified themselves as pessimists nearly equaled the number of optimists, under the study methodology.

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