Signal · Commodities & Input Costs
Asia’s Coal Prices To Stay High as Supply Drops and Demand Firms
What the source reported
Source-reportedThermal coal prices in Asia are expected to stay elevated in the coming months as demand is strengthening in the ongoing gas-to-coal switch, while supply from China and Indonesia is falling, Fitch Ratings said in a report. Coal prices in China, for example, have hit a three-year high in recent weeks as supply from key exporter Indonesia remains restricted due to government policies and strong El Niño disrupting river barge movements. Indonesia’s thermal coal exports have been crimped by government production quotas and heightened uncertainties…
- Publication
- Oilprice.com · Trade Publication
- Published
- 20th October 2026
- Original report
- oilprice.com
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What ProcIntel recorded
ProcIntel-derived- Category
- Commodities & Input Costs
- Geography
- Global
- Organisations
- None identified
- Collected
- 20th October 2026 · 14:52
Initial assessment ProcIntel's automatic, provisional read of this individual Signal -- Initial Significance and Initial Confidence, computed deterministically before any Event extraction or human review.
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Initial Significance Moderate (36.0/100). Strongest contributor: Procurement Impact (27.0/30 points). Limiting factor: Impact-Scale Specificity (0.0/10 points). Initial Confidence Low (20.5/100, data sufficiency: Insufficient). Strongest contributor: Source Authority (20.0/40 points). Limiting factor: Specificity (0.0/20 points).
- Strongest contributor
- Procurement Impact
- Limiting factor
- Impact-Scale Specificity