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Coal Watch: Markets feel the uncertainty over China's coal import regulations
October 27, 2014 (4:29)
James O'Connell explains how Chinese imports of Indonesian coal appear to be shifting while Australian coal may find some reprieve from coming Chinese regulations.
Commodity Pulse: Big changes in US heating oil
October 24, 2014 (12:06)
Platts editors discuss how new restrictions requiring states to cut the maximum sulfur content in home heating oil, could affect distribution companies, and the potential affect of a supply squeeze on diesel.
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BNSF says laying out coal-centric service recovery plan 'counterproductive'
Houston (Platts)--29 Oct 2014 606 pm EDT/2206 GMT
A US Surface Transportation Board order to make public a coal-specific service recovery plan would be "counterproductive" and "unnecessary," BNSF Railway told the agency, arguing it is taking the necessary steps to improve coal service as utilities face severe shortages ahead of winter.
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October 29, 2014 -
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October 27, 2014 -
Examining the likely impact on the Russian oil sector of the so-called "tax maneuver", a new taxation regime due to come into force in 2015.
Does the US really need all the oil stashed in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve?
October 27, 2014 -
Platts senior editors ask if the hundreds of millions of barrels of crude oil stashed away by the US government may indicate a hoarding problem.
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October 24, 2014 -
How falling crude oil dragged some aromatics prices to their lowest points in years, while olefins markets are dealing with other price influences.
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A competitive US steel sheet market heads toward end-of-year uncertainty
These are strange days for the US sheet steel market. While generally profitable for producers via the world’s highest prices, mills now face some serious challenges.
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The oil industry has often heard itself being criticized from within for not being bolder in sending a broadly positive message about what it does. Hydrocarbons make modern life possible.
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China Coal Import Tax: Chinese traders seek to pass through import tax to Australian shippers
October 28, 2014
Chinese traders paying the Asian country's new import tax on Australian cargoes of bituminous thermal coal are attempting to pass on the expense to coal shippers in Australia, resulting in severe downward pressure on FOB prices, traders said recently.
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Identifying price trends in the Turkey region long steel sector
This paper introduces new Platts analysis in identifying price trends and price direction signals in the Turkish rebar, billet and scrap markets. The Platts Turkey ARC Steel Tracker (Turkey ARC ) has been designed to analyze price relationships of inputs and outputs to regional electric arc furnaces and rolling mills, and the suitability of this model and scope for its data is examined.
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