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CMC Overview
January 2009
Forward
Looking Statements
This written and verbal presentation may contain forward-looking statements regarding the outlook for the Company's financial
results including net earnings, product pricing and demand, production rates, interest
rates, inventory levels, impact of acquisitions and general market conditions. These
forward-looking statements generally can be identified by phrases such as the
company or its management “expect,” “anticipates,” “believe,”
“ought,” “should,” “likely,”
“appears,” “projected,” “forecast,”
“outlook,” “will” or other words or
phrases of similar impact. There
is inherent risk and uncertainty in any forward-looking statements. Variances will occur
and some could be materially different from management's current opinion.
Developments that could impact the Company's expectations include solvency
of financial institutions and their ability or willingness to lend, extent of
government intervention and its effect on capital markets, construction activity, difficulties or
delays in the execution of construction contracts resulting in cost overruns or contract
disputes, metals pricing over which the Company exerts little influence, interest rate
changes, increased capacity and product availability from competing steel minimills and
other steel suppliers including import quantities and pricing, court decisions, industry
consolidation or changes in production capacity or utilization, the ability to integrate
acquisitions into operations; global factors including political and military uncertainties,
credit availability, currency fluctuations, energy and supply prices and decisions by
governments impacting the level of steel imports and pace of overall economic activity,
particularly China.