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Commodities Focus

Jun 25, 2019

US corn futures have been soaring since May, as persistent rains have pummeled the Midwest.  Now, the impact of the rains are being felt not just for corn, but for ethanol as well. Platts agriculture editors Sergio Alvarado, Nicolle Monteiro de Castro and Wes Swift discuss how the weather is...


Jun 13, 2019

Severe weather this year in the US Midwest has kept farmers from planting crops, cutting regional diesel demand. Even with prices at multimonth lows, the market is unlikely to quickly reverse course due not only to high stocks of diesel and jet fuel, but because farmers will be unable to plant as...


Novatek’s Mark Gyetvay on LNG, US sanctions and trade tensions

Jun 7, 2019

Mark Gyetvay, CFO and deputy chairman of the management board at Novatek, visits S&P Global Platts for an interview with S&P Global Platts senior writer for LNG, Lucie Roux. In it, he discusses how the Russian gas producer intends to boost its output to approximately 70 million metric tons...


Jun 7, 2019

Markets are now gearing up for the implementation of the International Maritime Organization's new sulfur cap regulation, which takes effect on January 1, 2020. Shipowners are increasingly taking compliant fuel for sea trials, while traders are lapping up any and all low sulfur components within...


Jun 7, 2019

Last summer, ERCOT saw record power demand, while California power prices reached an all-time high. With another summer coming up, S&P Global Platts senior pricing specialists Kassia Micek, Kelli Ainsworth and Jeff Zhou discuss ISO summer load and resource expectations and July and August...