{"id":6173,"date":"2011-12-16T00:22:10","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T22:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/12\/euro-coal-prices-stable-plomin-awards-tender\/"},"modified":"2011-12-16T00:22:10","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T22:22:10","slug":"euro-coal-prices-stable-plomin-awards-tender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/euro-coal-prices-stable-plomin-awards-tender\/","title":{"rendered":"Euro Coal-Prices stable, Plomin awards tender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Plomin awards H1 tender to Macquarie<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Jan ARA trades at $109.75<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">LONDON<\/span> Dec 15 (Reuters) &#8211; Physical prompt coal prices<br \/>\nheld steady on Thursday as the market ignored choppy oil trade<br \/>\nbut prices are likely to come under more pressure in the next<br \/>\nfew weeks due to poor demand, traders and utilities said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Brent and U.S. crude futures were volatile on Thursday,<br \/>\npulled and pushed by the dollar, fresh concern over Europe&#8217;s<br \/>\ndebt crisis and U.S. economic reports.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Any players still trying to sell January FOB cargoes are<br \/>\nlikely to struggle to find buyers unless they discount heavily,<br \/>\ntraders said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everybody&#8217;s clearing the decks before the market basically<br \/>\nshuts down for the holidays,&#8221; one European trader said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The award of Croatian utility Plomin&#8217;s latest tender to<br \/>\nAustralian bank Macquarie is an indication of the market&#8217;s<br \/>\nweakeness, traders said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Macquarie will supply four panamax cargoes of American 1.5<br \/>\npercent sulphur coal to Plomin in the first half of 2012 at a<br \/>\ndiscount to API2.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Plomin awards H1 tender to Macquarie * Jan ARA trades at $109.75 LONDON Dec 15 (Reuters) &#8211; Physical prompt coal prices held steady on Thursday as the market ignored choppy oil trade but prices are likely to come under more pressure in the next few weeks due to poor demand, traders and utilities said. [&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-6173","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\/6173","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=6173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}