{"id":9245,"date":"2012-03-24T03:25:22","date_gmt":"2012-03-24T01:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/03\/euro-coal-prices-stable-but-outlook-more-bearish\/"},"modified":"2012-03-24T03:25:22","modified_gmt":"2012-03-24T01:25:22","slug":"euro-coal-prices-stable-but-outlook-more-bearish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/euro-coal-prices-stable-but-outlook-more-bearish\/","title":{"rendered":"Euro Coal-Prices stable but outlook more bearish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* No fresh trades reported<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* May DES ARA cargo bid at $85\/T<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">LONDON, March 23<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Prices of prompt physical coal<br \/>\nwere little changed for a fifth day, with bids and offers far<br \/>\napart and no fresh trades reported.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The market lacks direction because of the lack of spot<br \/>\ntrades to aid price discovery, or fundamental fresh news,<br \/>\ntraders said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Warmer weather in Europe and high stockpiles are expected to<br \/>\npull swaps prices lower next week, with physical prices<br \/>\nfollowing, they said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everybody was hoping for prices to recover and it&#8217;s been a<br \/>\nslow realisation that it isn&#8217;t happening &#8212; now it&#8217;s looking a<br \/>\nbit more bearish,&#8221; one utility source said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Oil prices rallied on Friday on news that Iranian oil<br \/>\nexports have fallen significantly this month but the<br \/>\nthinly-traded coal market did not follow oil higher.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>GRAPHIC: DES ARA physical prices Oct-Feb:<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* No fresh trades reported * May DES ARA cargo bid at $85\/T LONDON, March 23 (Reuters) &#8211; Prices of prompt physical coal were little changed for a fifth day, with bids and offers far apart and no fresh trades reported. The market lacks direction because of the lack of spot trades to aid price [&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-9245","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\/9245","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=9245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}