McCloskey Energy Markets Service

The world’s premier coal and energy service provides news, analysis, price, and fundamental critical intelligence on seaborne thermal coal markets and competing fuels.

The trusted source for thermal coal market news, pricing, and analysis

The world’s premier coal and energy intelligence service delivers essential news, analysis, pricing, and fundamental data on seaborne thermal coal markets and competing fuels. It is underpinned by industry-leading proprietary coal prices and offers the most time-sensitive and reliable market intelligence available.

Benefits of service:

  • Receive timely news alerts to make faster, more informed trading and investment decisions.
  • Access in-depth market reports that translate complex trends to allow clients to develop actionable strategies.
  • Get comprehensive daily and weekly market round-ups to understand market drivers and spot emerging opportunities.
  • Rely on accurate, up-to-date daily and weekly coal price benchmarks to support contract pricing, planning, and negotiations.

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Key Features:

News: News alerts are delivered in real time, directly to your email 24/7. Designed to support trading – market-moving news in a world where prices, events and sentiment can change in minutes.
News insight: Making sense of events as they happen.
Market round-ups: Scheduled summaries of market drivers, prices, and fundamental data for key markets. These include:

  • Atlantic thermal daily round-up
  • Atlantic thermal midday round-up
  • Asian thermal coal daily round-ups 
  • Asia freight weekly round-up
  • Indonesian thermal coal weekly round-up
  • Australian vessel queues and delays weekly round-up

McCloskey Coal & Energy Report: Provides a weekly anchor commentary and analytical wrap-up of market-moving news. 

  • Corporate news: earnings and performance, strategy, mergers and acquisitions
  • Regulatory changes 
  • Transportation and logistics: freight rates and supply chain infrastructure 
  • Thermal coal market news and analysis: global and regional drivers and arbitrage with coal and competing fuels
  • Energy sector evolution: Natural gas, LNG, and emerging technologies
  • Coal trade: Global production, consumption, import/export data updates and analysis
  • Carbon markets analysis and the impact on thermal coal 
  • International futures markets

Fundamental data: Comprehensive price and fundamental data files are available for download, with many of our prices also available via API delivery. Key datasets include: 

  • International seaborne thermal coal and petcoke prices 
  • Daily forward curves
  • Coal tenders: Issued and awarded
  • Coal production data
  • Coal inventory data
  • Coal and petcoke trade data (import/export)
  • China domestic thermal coal data
  • Freight rates

Sample of thermal coal and petcoke prices 

High CV – basis 6,000 kc NAR

  • NW Europe steam coal (6,000kc NAR)
  • Richards Bay FOB (6,000kc NAR)
  • Richards Bay (5,700 min)
  • Newcastle FOB (6,000kc NAR)
  • Newcastle FOB (5,700 kc NAR min)

Mid CV – basis 5,500 kc NAR

  • Australian FOB (5,500kc NAR)
  • India east coast CFR (5,500kc NAR)
  • South African FOB (5,500kc NAR)
  • South China CFR (5,500kc NAR)

Low CV

  • M50 Indonesian sub-bituminous (4,700kc NAR)
  • M42 Indonesian FOB (4,200kc GAR)

Petcoke 

  • USGVC FOB petcoke (>5.5-7% sulphur)
  • USGVC FOB petcoke (4-5.5% sulphur)

Differentials (Discount to API4)

  • Richards Bay FOB (5,700kc NAR min) diff to API4
  • Richards Bay FOB (5,500kc NAR)  diff to API4
  • Richards Bay FOB (4,800kc NAR) diff to API4
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