The Acceptance Stage: Global shipping markets face up to IMO 2020
In the final Shipping Commodities Focus podcast of 2019, S&P Global Platts editors George Griffiths and Sam Eckett discuss the state of the markets ahead of IMO 2020's January 1 deadline. They review ...
18 Dec 20198min
Winter pricing insights: The new dynamics of US natural gas markets
With record-high production and unprecedented exposure to global markets through exports, US natural gas markets are in many ways heading into uncharted territory this winter. S&P Global Platts Americ...
18 Dec 201918min
Off beet: where did Europe's sugar surplus go?
Two consecutive campaigns of lower sugar production and trade deficits are forecast in the European sugar market. EMEA agriculture pricing lead Robert Beaman, global market development manager Piero C...
18 Dec 201914min
Growing European ethylene supply is hit by weak derivatives
What's in store for 2020? As 2019's heavy turnaround season at all main European petrochemical cracker units came to an end, ethylene supplies returned to a progressively weakening derivatives market....
3 Dec 201912min
Sunny side up: rising prices in the Black Sea sunflower oil market
In today's Commodities Focus podcast, join EMEA agriculture pricing lead Robert Beaman, oilseeds editor George Duke and global market development manager Piero Carello as they discuss how the global v...
28 Nov 201911min
The challenges and opportunities of hedging with LME steel futures
In today's Commodities Focus podcast, steel pricing analysts Viral Shah and Pascal Dick speak to Shan Islam, head of ferrous trading at Amalgamated Metals Trading (AMT) about the growing market intere...
26 Nov 201913min
2020: The shakeout year to come for US LNG development
S&P Global Platts senior natural gas writer Harry Weber and S&P Global Market Intelligence natural gas reporter Corey Paul discuss with Platts head of Americas gas news Joe Fisher the outlook for US L...
21 Nov 201919min
GECF gas exporters summit to take place in Equatorial Guinea
The Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) is holding its fifth heads-of-state summit in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, next week with gas heavyweights such as Russia, Iran and Qatar set to discuss the stat...
20 Nov 20197min
