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At McCloskey, we deliver comprehensive news, market intelligence, and price assessments, paired with in-depth analysis and strategic S&D and bulk commodity price forecasts, both near term and further out. Our expertise spans thermal coal, metallurgical coal, metcoke, petcoke, iron ore, and scrap with a growing focus on both traditional and green steel markets. We are also expanding and developing our coverage of bulk ores, ferrous alloys, and battery raw materials.

Our insights support a wide range of industry players —including coal and iron ore producers, steelmakers, traders, infrastructure firms, and governments—helping them navigate the complexities of the thermal coal, steel raw materials, and steel markets. 

Powered by proprietary data and decades of daily news and price reporting, we deliver essential, market-moving insights. Our price assessments are recognized by the market as trusted and reliable indicators of the real market value.

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

McCloskey Energy Markets Service

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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Comprehensive intelligence for the global steelmaking supply chain

McCloskey Steel Raw Materials Markets

From our traditional foothold in metallurgical coal markets, the service has evolved into broader coverage of the steel complex. Our steel raw materials coverage provides prices, daily news content, and strategic analysis and forecasts for metallurgical coal, coke, iron ore, ferrous scrap, steel and green steel, as well as key ores, and alloys used in steelmaking.

Our coverage enables coal and iron ore producers, steelmakers, traders, infrastructure companies, governments, and industry participants to stay informed about the most critical information affecting steel raw materials markets.

Our markets module offers daily price reporting with a focus on market-moving news, supported by strong fundamental data.
Our research module provides strategic insights and long-term outlooks based on our unique and proprietary databases.

Benefits of service:

  • Gain insights across the full spectrum of steel raw materials and finished steel products.
  • Leverage innovative green steel price assessments to support your sustainability goals and future strategies.
  • Access strategic forecasts across all major steel raw materials to plan with clarity.
  • Connect with seasoned analysts for timely answers and in-depth market interpretation.
  • Stay on top of metallurgical coal and coke markets with daily pricing and expert analysis.

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Investigate possible futures for evolving thermal coal market

McCloskey Energy Research

Find answers to the industry’s most pressing questions with our comprehensive service integrating short- and long-term global thermal coal outlooks. Weekly, monthly, and quarterly reports include 25-year forecasts, supported by the analysis of global thermal coal supply/demand trends and their drivers, prices, cost curves, and freight market movements. Assess market balances and identify trends to optimize business decisions.

Benefits of service:

  • Access accurate thermal coal prices, trade data, and key statistics instantly to support timely, informed decisions.
  • Analyze supply cost curves, production data, and emissions metrics to assess market viability and competitiveness.
  • Inform production, transportation, trading, and investment strategies with robust, actionable data and forecasts.
  • Understand the political, regulatory, economic, and technological drivers behind regional coal market trends.
  • Assess coal’s long-term position in the global energy mix and prepare for emerging risks and disruptions.

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Regional Insight. Strategic Advantage.

North America Coal Markets

Covering the United States and Canadian coal markets, timely industry coverage  includes earnings, key financial and operational data, and policy initiatives, alongside rich industry insights, leading market commentary and price reporting, in-depth trends, research and fuel competition coverage.

Africa and APAC markets 

Africa and Australia are pivotal players in global coal and raw materials supply, while India has rapidly emerged as a major engine of demand growth across coal, energy, and steel markets. Our services deliver timely, expert-driven coverage powered by on-the-ground intelligence—ensuring you stay ahead of market shifts and seize opportunities as they emerge.

Greater China Markets

China’s influence on global coal and steel markets is unmatched—and understanding its rapid developments is essential for any serious player in the industry. Our China service delivers specialized, real-time insight into both thermal and metallurgical coal markets, providing the clarity you need in a dynamic, complex market. On-the-ground experts in China support these unique insights.

Gain exclusive access to comprehensive data on prices, imports, exports, consumption, and production, alongside expert analysis of infrastructure, government policy, and transportation developments. With our Monthly China Coal Report, you’ll stay ahead of regulatory shifts and emerging trends that move markets.

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Who Benefits from these Services?

  • Miners: Short and long-term trading, competitive intelligence, and long-term investment strategy. Maritime transportation data and analysis
  • Petcoke market players (IOCs, cement): Petcoke markets follow thermal coal markets and are sometimes poorly understood. Our weekly prices, information on key deals and forecasts makes us one of the leaders in this market
  • Financials and traders: Short and long-term trading, understand profitability of mining companies to invest. Traders also use our indices daily to trade. In investment banking, mining costs may be key for M&A and in some markets our company analysis is critical for banks
  • Power industry: Short-term trading, long-term contract pricing, impact of fuel competitiveness and climate change on coal generation. Some power players have expanded into dry bulk trading (e.g., Statkraft) and act as traders. 
  • Analyst: Forecasts, and supply and demand information is key to develop analysis to be used in strategic planning and procurement  
  • Procurement/Sales/Marketing: Manages input contracts on a daily basis and requires up-to-date pricing, often for use in contract negotiations and in some cases to price contracts. They frequently rely on daily indexes and market updates. Daily news reports are among the most valuable resources, enhancing understanding of developments and transactions that influence pricing
  • Strategic Planner: Holds the group strategy making decisions on new investments and share of production from different countries and types of technology (power sector), or markets (mining)
  • Miners: Short and long-term trading, competitive intelligence, and long-term investment strategy. Maritime transportation data and analysis
  • Steelmakers: Short and long-term trading – competitiveness of  steelmaking raw material by supplier; impact of hydrogen in met coal demand and steel production. Needs will vary depending on producing technology; blast furnace will focus on met coal and iron ore; EAF – on ferrous scrap. Need steel prices including green
  • FCM/Trading: Short and long-term trading, understand profitability of mining companies to invest; Transactional market participants  can also use our markers in contracts for trading, marketing or procurement
  • Steel Distribution Companies: hort and long-term trading, need finished and green steel prices, use raw material prices as reference. Needs in particular product prices depend on specialization of each company
  • End Users (ie Automotive): Understand how raw materials impact final steel prices and detailed intelligence in steel and green steel prices as well as assist in making informed procurement decisions, anticipate market shifts, and stay ahead in a rapidly evolving, sustainability-driven steel landscape.
  • Mining: Short and long-term trading, competitive intelligence, and long-term  investment strategy. Maritime transportation data and analysis
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