ZMP Cockpit – News Summary
Market Commentary 15.08.2019
- KAS: heavily reduced urea imports -> more nitrate demand
- KAS: reasonable price compared to HS with UI
- Ammonia: first price increases enforced
- Phosphates: usual premium for Europe disappeared
- Phosphates: higher demand expected in Q4 from South America
- Phosphates: Price rally in soy allows higher P-prices
- Phosphates: price decline stopped due to soil formation
- Phosphates: strained margin on the producer side
- KAS: falling urea prices in North Africa
- KAS: high margins of producers at full production
- Urea: possible imports of cheap Iranian goods to Europe
- Urea: falling prices in South America, especially Brazil
- Hemp: rising production in China
- Phosphates: falling demand in Europe, especially Germany
- Phosphates: new, very high production capacity in Morocco
- Phosphates: big export pressure from China
ZMP Market Analyses
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Slowdown in demand in the fertilizer market - declining prices
2019 Sep 19 - 1:43pm
Depressed price sentiment on the fertilizer markets - phosphate, potash and AHL decline The autumn price trend for 2019 shows that fertilizers have little tendency to orientate upward. Rather the opposite. The DAP courses have still not formed a reliable bottom after a strong slide to the month of July / August...
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Autumn calm at the fertilizer prices
2019 Sep 12 - 5:29pmFertilizer prices hardly changed The fertilizer market is dominated by the usual autumn calm. The farmers are busy with harvest and order work. In addition, mental employment material comes from the new Fertilizer Regulations, which are announced by the EU, the Federal Government and the state governments. They cause...
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Yielding international urea prices
2019 Sep 4 - 4:06pmInternational urea prices currently slightly subdued - Natural gas and corn prices fall The average international urea prices are fundamentally related to corn and natural gas prices. Since urea production is energy-intensive , a connection with natural gas...
