India's steel sector: turning a corner or facing more hurdles ahead?
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 Feb 20209min
COVID-19 crushing China's steel and iron ore demand
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 Feb 20209min
Geopolitics, coronavirus foul IMO 2020 tanker owner freight negotiations
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 Feb 202012min
Oiling the gears of the vegetable oil complex
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 Feb 202023min
Demand dive, price shocks dominate commodity markets hit by coronavirus impact
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 Feb 202018min
Trading structure, pricing dynamics shift in Brazilian fuel market
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 Feb 202013min
New challenges loom for US power markets
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 Feb 202014min
Global Power Podcast: Signposts of the energy transition and meeting 2-degree targets
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 Jan 202010min
