Subscription Options:

Subscribe via RSS

China’s biggest steelmaker Baosteel cuts prices for first time in 2012

* Baosteel cuts July prices by 4 pct amid weak demand

* Share price falls nearly 3 pct

* Steel output cuts could follow (Adds details throughout, analyst comments)

By David Stanway

BEIJING, June 12 (Reuters) – China’s Baosteel will cut prices of its main products by around 4 percent in July, its first reduction this year as it responds to slackening demand in the world’s biggest steel consumer, sending its Shanghai-listed shares down [...]