Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional (NYSE:SID) Q3 2022 Earnings Conference Call November 1, 2022 10:30 AM ET
Company Participants
Marcelo Cunha Ribeiro - CFO and IR Executive Officer
Helena Guerra - Sustainability Director
Benjamin Steinbruch - Chairman and CEO
Conference Call Participants
Daniel Sasson - Itau BBA
Rafael Barcellos - Santander Bank
Carlos de Alba - Morgan Stanley
Caio Ribeiro - Bank of America
Isabella Vasconcelos - Bradesco BBI
Leonardo Correa - BTG Pactual
Operator
Good morning ladies and gentlemen. At this time, we would like to welcome everyone to CSN's Conference Call to present Results for the Third Quarter 2022. Today, we have with us the company executive officers.
We would like to inform you that this event is being recorded and all participants will be in listen-only mode during the company presentation. Ensuing this, there will be a question-and-answer section at which time further instructions will be provided. [Operator Instructions]
We have a simultaneous webcast that may be accessed through CSN's Investor Relations' website ri.csn.com.br/english where the presentation is also available. The replay of this event will be available on the website for a week. You can flip through the slides at your own convenience.
Before proceeding, we would like to clarify that some of the statements herein are mere expectations or trends and are based on current assumptions and opinions of the company management. Future results, performance, and events may differ materially from those expressed herein as they do not constitute projection.
In fact, actual results performances or events may differ materially from those expressed or implied by forward-looking statements as a result of several factors, such as general and economic conditions in Brazil and other countries, interest rate and exchange rate levels, future rescheduling or prepayment of debt denominated in foreign currencies, protectionist measures in the U.S., Brazil, and other countries, changes in laws and regulations and general competitive factors at globally, regionally or national bases.
I will now turn the conference over to Mr. Marcelo Cunha Ribeiro, CFO and Investor Relations Executive Officer, who will present the company's operating and financial highlights for the period. Mr. Ribeiro, you may proceed.
Marcelo Cunha Ribeiro
Good morning, and thank you all for participating in our results call for the third quarter. Our quarter highlights, first of all, I would like to mention that this was a pretty turbulent period due to the change of prices in commodities, especially in the international market, iron ore, the impacts of the Chinese economy that is going into a slowdown impacted by the global markets have just and the prices of steel and mining at domestic level.