Special Reports

S&P Global Platts delves into China's current policy direction – now reinforced under a more strongly empowered President Xi Jinping – and its wider implications for global energy and commodity markets.

Pricing in metallurgial or coking coal markets has entered a distinct new phase. Increased spot market activity, the use of futures and hedging, and the adoption of different price structures in coking coal are all part of longer-term trends that are transforming the market globally, in a way not unlike the changes seen in the iron ore market earlier this decade.