{"id":15844,"date":"2012-10-24T20:03:16","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T18:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/s-africa-coal-prices-hit-fresh-lows-as-77t-trades\/"},"modified":"2012-10-24T20:03:16","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T18:03:16","slug":"s-africa-coal-prices-hit-fresh-lows-as-77t-trades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africa-coal-prices-hit-fresh-lows-as-77t-trades\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa coal prices hit fresh lows as $77\/T trades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">LONDON<\/span> Oct 24 (Reuters) &#8211; South African prompt physical<br \/>\ncoal prices fell to the lowest levels since late December 2009<br \/>\non Wednesday, extending a month-long decline, with a trade at<br \/>\n$77.00 a tonne FOB for a November cargo, traders said.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sluggish spot demand in India and China, two of the biggest<br \/>\nbuyers of South African material on a spot basis, and abundant<br \/>\navailability of cheaper coal from other countries have weighed<br \/>\non prices during the past month.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Prices have fallen from over $100 a tonne FOB Richards Bay<br \/>\nin Q2 and have further to fall unless demand revives.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Jacqueline Cowhig; editing by Jane Baird)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON Oct 24 (Reuters) &#8211; South African prompt physical coal prices fell to the lowest levels since late December 2009 on Wednesday, extending a month-long decline, with a trade at $77.00 a tonne FOB for a November cargo, traders said. Sluggish spot demand in India and China, two of the biggest buyers of South African [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-15844","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}