Driven up by forecasts of much weaker wind output, lower French and Belgian nuclear availability and higher power demand, the power spot prices for today rose in northwestern Europe compared to Friday, with the German prices getting back near its neighbors’ after a week being mostly uncoupled. The baseload day-ahead prices hence averaged 188.46€/MWh in…
Crude prices hiked on early Monday, with ICE Brent reaching 86.1 $/b. The most surprising move came late Friday when ICE Brent forward curve steepened, with the Dec/Jan inter month spread reaching 93 cents, previously hovering around 70 cents. Dec-21/Dec-22 also jumped, to reach an impressive 9.73 $/b, rarely experienced that close to the expiry. on…
New home prices in China fell marginally in September for the first time since April 2015. A new property developer, Sinic, was also unable to meet its commitments on a USD loan. The situation remains tense, although “manageable” according to the Chinese authorities. Markets that were driven by positive sentiment until yesterday are likely to take…
The ICE Brent Dec-21 contract is consolidating at the 85 $/b, at odds with the rally in US equity markets, which usually boosts commodity prices. Indeed, the recent report on positioning showed that money-managers were diverting exposure from the Brent market – 31k of reduced long exposure on the Brent instrument – to the WTI market. The WTI-Brent spread had a…
The European power spot prices continued to drop yesterday and fell below the clean coal costs, driven down by lower clean fuels costs, the surging wind output, a weakening power demand and forecasts of stronger solar generation in Germany. The day-ahead prices hence averaged 84.33€/MWh in Germany, France, Belgium and the Netherlands, -76.09€/MWh day-on-day and…
