Sugar's fortunes delicately poised as supply expectations edge towards surplus
Tim Worledge and Claudiu Covrig look at the intricate interplay between supply and demand in the global sugar markets, and mull the impact of recovering sugar production in India and Thailand, the ret...
30 Jan 20176min
BPF outlines UK's plastic industry's Brexit concerns
Mike Boswell, chair of the Brexit Committee at the British Plastic Federation assesses the challenges for an import dependent UK plastics industry post Brexit. UK converters face legislation changes, ...
27 Jan 201713min
2017 Outlook: European power perks up
After years of steady price declines, European power markets are dancing to a lively tune of nuclear outages, low wind and spiky Winter demand. Will prices rebalance once the current capacity squeeze ...
24 Jan 20176min
Container shipping: What next for the smaller TEU fleet?
Can the abandoned smaller TEU vessels become the workhorse for the customer focused container market? S&P Global Platts senior editor Andrew Scorer explores some potential options for these vessels to...
23 Jan 201716min
Gas generation squeezed by coal in US winter power markets
Wholesale electric power prices in the US are starting 2017 by ticking upward, lifted by firmer natural gas prices, which overall has caused coal generation to take some of gas generation's share in t...
18 Jan 20174min
Headwinds for US aluminum alloy market likely to continue into 2017
It's been tough going for the secondary aluminum market over the last few months, and an ample alloy supply is weighing on the US market as the year ends. Sarah Baltic Hilliard, metals market editor i...
14 Des 20168min
Coal prices wait on China production and winter severity
S&P Global Platts editors Jacqueline Holman and Cameron Carswell discuss recent moves in European and Asian thermal coal markets, from the rapid increase in prices which saw the Australian market hit ...
25 Nov 20166min
One month after the implementation of gas balancing schemes in Italy and Spain
In October 2016, new gas balancing schemes were rolled out in Italy and Spain to align the two countries gas hubs with European standards.Market reporters Dalila Ouerghi and Mario Perez discuss the im...
14 Nov 20164min
