An atypical year for Brazilian steel: Price hikes, slow recovery and presidential elections
The pricing power of domestic mills in Brazil was built on strengthening Chinese steel prices over the past few months, putting Brazilian steel products near discounts against imported material. Histo...
19 Okt 20186min
European paraxylene market transforms amid global fundamental shifts
The European paraxylene market is seeing significant changes this year as fundamental shifts in global demand and supply yield opportunities and challenges for the region. The start-up of a new downst...
19 Okt 20188min
US power markets brace for winter
North American power pricing specialists Kelli Ainsworth, Kassia Micek and Jeff Zhou, all based in Houston, look back on how US power markets fared over the summer, where ERCOT markets sizzled out, bu...
10 Okt 20189min
Is blending biofuel in the bunker fuel pool a viable alternative to installing scrubbers?
As the bunkering industry gears up for the International Maritime Organization's tighter sulfur emission standards from 2020 onward, is the blending of biofuels a viable way to reduce emissions? S&P G...
2 Okt 20186min
Trump's steel tariffs and their impact on the US energy sector
When US President Donald Trump imposed tariffs on steel imports earlier this year, the impacts went far beyond that industry, with ripple effects for crude oil, natural gas, LNG export projects and pe...
27 Sep 201836min
North-Northeast Brazil's 2018-19 sugarcane season begins with expected emphasis on ethanol
A unique season for the 2018-19 sugarcane crop in North-Northeast Brazil is starting to shape up, with producers expected to maximize ethanol production. And for the first time since 2010-11 producers...
25 Sep 201811min
Market shrugs as natural gas storage lags in US Midwest
S&P Global Platts senior pricing specialists John DeLapp and Veda Chowdhury discuss the changing natural gas storage picture in the Midwest. Although stocks are running well behind the five-year avera...
21 Sep 20184min
US-China tariffs: Uncertainty and chaos in petrochemicals
Join us for a discussion of how US-China trade tensions and tariffs are rocking the US petrochemical industry and markets for chemicals and plastics. Participating are Kristen Hays, senior petrochemic...
19 Sep 201818min
