Malaysian biodiesel arbitrage to Europe swings open
Factors have aligned to enable exports of Malaysian palm methyl ester to be competitive into...
Black Sea: Ukrainian competition pushes up Russian wheat prices
Our editors give a market frontline view on the size of the harvest in Russia, farmer selling and...
Australia’s record wheat harvest threatened by rain and frost
Platts editors give a market frontline view on how rains and frost are threatening Australia's...
Improving the competitiveness of European petrochemicals: room for growth?
Dorothee Arns, executive director of Petrochemicals Europe, Cefic petrochemicals programme, talks...
Europe's 'bright' ethane future
Evergas CEO, Steffen Jacobsen, talks about the future of transatlantic ethane trade and how...
Bearish fundamentals facing the European chemical sector in H2 2016
Interview with Laura Lopez, analyst at Germany's Baader Bank on European chemical utilizations...
Turkey surprises market with $15/mt thermal coal import duty
Jacqueline Holman and Cameron Carswell discuss the surprise announcement from the Turkish...
EU gears up to drive oil out of transport
With the EU looking to cut its transport emissions and high oil import dependency, we discuss...
US corn prices driven by weather, exports up to compensate for Brazil
Sophie Bryon and Sergio Alvarado are back from the Global Grains North Americas conference and...
Mozambican thermal coal heads to Europe
Jacqueline Holman and Cameron Carswell discuss European utilities importing high ash thermal coal...
Ineos director Tom Crotty on the group's petrochemical operations post-Brexit
Listen to Ineos director Tom Crotty discuss the state of the group's UK operations at present and...
Key themes from the Q2 Platts Global Polyolefin Outlook
Our analysts discuss the demand/supply fundamentals of polypropylene, the likelihood of a bullish...
Why are UK power prices higher than the rest of Europe?
As the UK votes on whether to leave the EU, we ask if UK or EU policies are more important for UK...
EU court ruling on ethanol duties creates question for both US, European markets
Following The EU's decision to invalidate a country-wide antidumping duty for ethanol imports...
What lies ahead for European biofuels in a post-2020 world?
With EU legislation laying out requirements for renewable energy in road transport up until 2020,...
T2 ethanol market suffers uncertain supply on closures, trial runs
With European ethanol experiencing a turbulent supply environment, we discuss the implications of...
US RFS proposal jolts RINs market as physical biofuels markets more muted
RINs markets had the largest day-on-day change in several years after the US Environmental...
Excess supply weighs on US aromatics prices, markets hope for more demand
US benzene, toluene and mixed xylene prices have been pressured by excess supply, including...
Brazil sugar output expected to increase in 2016/2017 season
Platts editors discuss the global sugar deficit that has supported world sugar prices and how...
Spring awakening for dry bulk Supramaxes in Atlantic
Following an exceptionally bearish winter, freight rates in the dry bulk Atlantic Handysize and...
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