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Weak pricing power is also holding back profits.
"It was a weak player in a weak pricing environment," Moulton said.
It is also an important test for the industry, which has been plagued for years by overcapacity and weak pricing.
"Production was not adjusted quickly enough, leading to oversupply and weak pricing," he said, adding that steel prices were down 8.2 percent in 2012 from 2011.
"The results are great in this environment, with high fuel prices and the weak pricing environment," said Raymond E. Neidl, an analyst at Blaylock & Partners who rates the company's stock a buy and does not own any shares.
Volkswagen has outperformed other European mass-market carmakers, which are struggling with weak pricing and markets depressed by slow growth and high unemployment in countries like Italy and Spain.
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With economic growth weak, price pressures should ease.
But given weak prices and demand, it is "commercial idiocy", says Mr Krutikhin.
That's weak prices plural: in commodities as well as in Glasenberg's stake.
"When demand itself is weak, prices won't rise just through liquidity provision," Mr. Shirakawa said.
Weyerhaeuser's projection comes as the timber industry is in a slump, beset by weak prices and tougher environmental regulation.
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