Commodities Focus

With India's domestic steel prices staging a recovery, steelmakers have shifted their focus to their home markets. However, they remain cautious about any repercussions from COVID-19, fundamentally sl...

18 Helmi 20209min

Steel and raw materials markets have been particularly affected by the coronavirus, as two of the key demand sectors – construction and manufacturing – remain in limbo awaiting workers to return. Mean...

13 Helmi 20209min

A little over a month into the IMO 2020 switch from 3.5% to 0.5% sulfur bunker fuels, the lifting of US sanctions on COSCO-owned tankers and dented crude oil and jet fuel demand due to the coronavirus...

12 Helmi 202012min

From the bursting bubble of palm oil prices, to the soybean harvests of South America and the far-reaching impact of the coronavirus, the global vegetable oil markets are multi-faceted and dynamic. Jo...

11 Helmi 202023min

The coronavirus outbreak, which has been declared by the World Health Organization as a global health emergency, is expected to slowdown economic growth in China, the world's largest crude oil, iron o...

7 Helmi 202018min

Brazil, the largest fuel consumer in South America, has been going through many changes in fuel consumption and pricing dynamics. Since state-led oil company Petrobras started to follow the internatio...

6 Helmi 202013min

A new decade is bringing new challenges for US power markets. The renewables buildout continues to disrupt the market in ways never seen before, mild winter weather and very weak natural gas prices ha...

4 Helmi 202014min

In light of the proposed Green Deal to make Europe carbon neutral by 2050, it is clear that the energy transition is on the forefront of policymakers' minds. Roman Kramarchuk and Dan Klein of S&P Glob...

31 Tammi 202010min