Domestic prices of hydrous ethanol in Brazil's center-south -- the world's largest sugarcane growing region -- hit five-month lows Tuesday as offers continued to flood the market. Product sold at plants in Ribeirao Preto have fallen 13% ...
Tags: Hydrous Ethanol, ethanol
The World Bank has called on Bangladesh to raise domestic natural gas prices after five years without an increase. "The administered price of domestically produced natural gas is fixed at a level considerably below that of the ...
Tags: Natural Gas, Domestic Prices
Chinese inquiries for imported thermal coal have picked up amid stabilizing domestic prices and lower freight rates, but a wide bid-offer spread continues to deter spot deals, sources said Tuesday. Australian suppliers have raised their ...
Turkish mills continued to buy scrap at higher levels Monday despite the increased raw material cost, meaning margins for finished steel ebbed away. The US re-entered the market with a deal from a New Orleans source at $388/mt for 25,000 ...
Tags: Steel Scrap, Turkish mills
The US hot-rolled coil market continues to be supported by limited Midwest supply, while cold-rolled coil import offers for May were heard to be lower. On the domestic front, most buyers expect another round of price increases following ...
Tags: HRC, hot-rolled coil, Construction, Decoration, coil
Speaking at the SteelOrbis 2014 Spring Conference & 70th IREPAS Meeting in Barcelona, Nam?k Ekinci, chairman of the Turkish Steel Exporters' Association, stated that the antidumping duty investigation launched by the US against Turkish ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Steel
The Turkish scrap import market moved up Thursday after a flurry of sales by European merchants. With mills still requiring April shipments, a number of bookings were heard in the market. One was confirmed coming out of the UK a couple ...
Tags: Steel Scrap, Scrap Market
State-owned PetroChina lost some Yuan 49 billion ($7.9 billion) last year importing natural gas from foreign suppliers and selling it at lower domestic prices in China, the company revealed Thursday when it released its 2013 financial ...
Tags: Natural Gas, PetroChina, pipeline gas
Fears of China moving to ban the import of lower grade coal have again resurfaced amid concern over the country's high pollution levels, with several market participants indicating that the government is seriously contemplating such a move ...
China's domestic spot prices for copper, aluminum and lead fell around 7% year on year in 2013 on weak demand, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said Thursday. Lead posted the largest drop, falling 7.4% year on year to ...
Tags: Copper, Aluminum, Domestic Prices
US ethanol exports in January totaled 326 million liters (86 million gallons), the highest monthly volume since December 2011, according to US Census Bureau data released late Friday. Exports are up 36% month on month and up 33% from ...
Tags: Ethanol, Chemicals, ethanol exports
China plans to raise citygate prices of natural gas consumed by non-residential users later this year, the National Development and Reform Commission said in its work report issued Wednesday at the start of the annual session of the ...
Tags: Natural Gas, on-grid tariff
State-owned Bangladesh Petroleum Corp has submitted a formal request to the National Board of Revenue seeking a waiver from local taxes, value added taxes and other duties imposed on refined oil product imports, in order to borrow less from ...
Tags: Petroleum, Tax Waivers, Oil Product
The US Department of Commerce (US DOC) has announced its preliminary decisions regarding the countervailing duty investigation against rebar imports from Turkey and Mexico, finding no subsidy in Turkish rebar imports. Accordingly, the ...
Tags: Rebar Imports, Mineral
Russia's gasoline and naphtha exports rose in January, as the cheaper ruble versus the US dollar made export netbacks more attractive, trading sources said. According to Energy Ministry figures, 384,370 mt of gasoline were exported in ...