Europe's steel industry battles with supply and demand during COVID-19
Europe is slowly coming out of lockdown and steel mills in Southern Europe can gradually ramp up production again. The steel market is however still far away from a healthy supply and demand balance -...
29 Apr 202010min
Out of the frying pan: Global veg oils markets wrestle with COVID-19 disruptions
Supply and demand in the global vegetable oils markets have both shifted in response to the coronavirus crisis, resulting in increasingly complex and unpredictable price trends. Robert Beaman talks to...
28 Apr 202015min
Pandemic oil markets have products tankers buzzing
Pandemic oil demand destruction has converted clean products tankers into offshore storage containers as onshore storage is approaching tank top. Forced floating storage as a result of discharge probl...
24 Apr 202018min
Coal markets struggle as mines are suspended worldwide
Coal markets are giving way to the coronavirus pandemic as cascaded demand and international government regulations left producers presented with the complex decision to slash supply. Sarah Matthews d...
22 Apr 202020min
Renewable curtailments in California increase as demand drops due to coronavirus
California is showing significant power price drops as a result oversupply, congestion and decreasing demand, with renewable curtailments increasing.
21 Apr 20208min
Coronavirus poses dim near-term outlook for North American midstream sector
S&P Global Platts senior natural gas writer Harry Weber and S&P Global Market Intelligence midstream finance reporter Allison Good preview the upcoming release of first-quarter earnings results by com...
17 Apr 202012min
Oversupply, coronavirus put US crude oil storage in the spotlight
US crude storage has quickly become an overwhelmingly important issue as the global market continues to grapple with an oversupply of crude and dramatically dwindling demand in light of the coronaviru...
15 Apr 202015min
A conversation with Goldman Sachs's Jeff Currie
Global demand for commodities has been obliterated. From copper as a barometer of the global economy to oil as a potential inflation hedge, no commodity has escaped the impact of coronavirus. Jeff Cur...
15 Apr 202025min
