Not many thermal coal buyers are looking to conclude deals for imported material this week with Chinese Lunar New Year holidays approaching, sources said Monday. "The delivery window before the Lunar New Year is closed," a source at a ...
Tags: Thermal Coal, Imported Material
A spike in the front-quarter CIF ARA c had eastern US coal export executives guessing Wednesday how much the out-of-the-money range for Central Appalachian thermal coal prices had narrowed. Platts assessed Wednesday the API2 Q1 2014 ...
Tags: East Coast Coal, Coal
A small upturn in prices for sub-5,000 kcal/kg NAR Chinese thermal coal on perceived stirrings of restocking activity for the upcoming northern hemisphere winter and some market tightness was seized on by traders Friday. South China ...
Tags: Coal, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
China's twice-revised proposal to ban some imports of lower calorific value thermal coal, predominantly from Indonesia, and some US higher-sulfur thermal coal, was close to being suspended as a pretext to being quietly dropped, according to ...
Tags: Low CV Thermal Coal, Chemicals
China will no longer be the strong driver of the international thermalcoal market that it has been in the past three years, Deutsche Bank saidFriday in a report. Using annualized year-to-date figures, Deutsche Bank said China's 2013coal ...
Tags: thermalcoal, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
The Asian thermal coal market is cautiously awaiting a decision from China, wondering if Beijing is serious about imposing a ban on imports of low calorific value coal, according to a range of market players interviewed by Platts Monday at ...
Tags: Low CV Coal, Import Ban
Market reports that China's National Energy Administration is considering a proposal to outlaw the import of some grades of lower calorific thermal coal has been greeted with a mixture of consternation and disbelief by participants in the ...
Tags: Asia Market, Thermal Coal
FOB prices for Australian 5,500 kcal/kg and 6,000 kcal/kg net-as-received spot cargoes came under intense pressure Thursday from a firmer freight market, lower Asian physical demand and weaker prices for domestic coal in China, market ...
Tags: spot cargo, Thermal Coal, Asia
Chinese buyers remained on the sidelines as they continued to scout for thermal coal cargoes at cheaper prices with no rush to conclude deals amid huge stockpiles at ports and power companies, sources said. Despite the lack of demand, ...
Tags: ASIA THERMAL COAL, Bargains, Imported Coal
The European-delivered thermal coal market traded at its highest level in over two months Wednesday afternoon as sources said that the market is finally reacting to tightening supplies following the ongoing disruption in Colombian exports. ...
Tags: coal market, Metallurgy, Drummond coal
Coal traders returned to their posts on Wednesday, snapping the streak of low volume sessions in the US over-the-counter thermal coal market since the Christmas holiday. Central Appalachian barge and rail (CSX) contracts, as well as ...
Tags: coal market, US, coal, coal industry, swap products
US over-the-counter thermal coal prices were assessed unchanged on Monday, as the market turned silent on the eve of the Christmas holiday. No trades were seen or heard in the US market. CME ClearPort closed early at 2:45 pm EST and ...
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Global thermal coal market undergoes pangs of oversupply and poor demand. 2012 has been game changer with US emerging as potent supplier domestic energy demand being met by shale gas making coal mining redundant. However the vacillating ...
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