{"id":9207,"date":"2012-03-23T03:24:34","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T01:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/03\/euro-coal-prices-stable-few-trades-seen\/"},"modified":"2012-03-23T03:24:34","modified_gmt":"2012-03-23T01:24:34","slug":"euro-coal-prices-stable-few-trades-seen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/euro-coal-prices-stable-few-trades-seen\/","title":{"rendered":"Euro Coal-Prices stable, few trades seen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* May S. African trades at $103\/T<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* India took 1.9 mln T S.African coal in Feb<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">LONDON, March 22<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Prices of prompt physical coal<br \/>\nwere range-bound for a fourth day, with bids and offers too far<br \/>\napart for much to trade.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A May loading South African cargo traded early in the<br \/>\nafternoon at $103.00, but the market still lacks clear enough<br \/>\ndirection for more players to take fresh positions.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>South Africa&#8217;s February exports were dominated by Asia,<br \/>\nwhich took 78 percent of the country&#8217;s 6 million tonnes of<br \/>\nshipments, up from 61 percent in the previous month<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The destination of the South African coal shipments, while<br \/>\nother origins have been more price-competitive, has been a<br \/>\nmystery, utilities said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In February, South Korea, Taiwan and Malaysia boosted the<br \/>\ntotal sold to Asia.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>China is still largely out of the spot market, and recent<br \/>\nsigns of slowing economic growth could mean China is on the<br \/>\nsidelines for another few months, traders and utilities said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>But further ahead, China&#8217;s imports could grow if plans to<br \/>\nslow the rise in coal production are put into effect.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* May S. African trades at $103\/T * India took 1.9 mln T S.African coal in Feb LONDON, March 22 (Reuters) &#8211; Prices of prompt physical coal were range-bound for a fourth day, with bids and offers too far apart for much to trade. A May loading South African cargo traded early in the afternoon [&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-9207","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\/9207","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=9207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}