US high-vol B pricesstubbornly weak

摘要

Atlantic met coal marketparticipants talking around a persistentlyweak US high-vol B spot price led pricesdown Friday.The Platts US low-vol hard coking coalassessment, based on good-quality CAPPlow-vol specified on 58% CSR and 1.5%MMR at 19% VM, fell 25 cents to $111/mt FOB US East Coast. The Platts UShigh-vol A assessment was stable at$111.50/mt, while Platts assessed UShigh-vol B based on 34% VM coal with25,000 ddpm, down 25 cents at $105/mt FOB US East Coast.