Austin Reynolds, 30, a sales representative for Ace Steel Supply Inc., was named Steel Market Update’s 2022 winner of the NexGen Leadership Award.

Editorial: The U.S. Department of Energy on Aug. 4 forecast the spot price of Brent crude oil will average $105 per barrel in 2022 and $95 in 2023.

Editorial: The American Trucking Associations’ advanced For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index increased 2.7 percent in June after rising 0.3 percent in May. In June, the index equaled 120.1 versus 116.9 in May.

Editorial: COVID-19 and its mutations are still around, causing havoc in individual lives, but the life of the economy is on the rebound as the need for planes, trains, automobiles, warehouses, bridges, factories and refineries grows.

Editorial: Definition: Long game—Considering the future implications of current choices, thinking ahead, being deliberate and patient.

Editorial: We are in full support of a healthy U.S. metals industry and strong job creation, but let’s hope the U.S. trade administration and the metals industry manages this delicate situation properly so we don’t see boom turn to bust too quickly.

Editorial: Initial positives to result from President Trump’s March 8 announcement are the restarts of capacity at U.S. Steel Corp.’s Granite City Works and Republic Steel’s Lorain, Ohio, complex.

Editorial: The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, passed by Congress and signed into law in late December, may be realized as a windfall for manufacturers with high fixed costs.

Editorial: “Whistling past the graveyard.” It’s an idiom which describes staying cheerful in a dire situation or proceeding down a particular path with little or no understanding of the potential consequences.

Editorial: The new administration has been listening carefully to the executive leadership of the American steel and aluminum industries.