MYSTEEL: Pressures remain for China's met coal market in H2

Despite recent positive signals, the Chinese metallurgical coal market will likely come under renewed pressure in the second half of 2025, as market fundamentals may not see an underlying improvement, Mysteel predicts in a new report on the commodity.

The first half of this year has folded with a general downtrend in coking coal prices, mainly due to severe stock accumulations across the supply chain that persistently dampened market dynamics. Downstream demand for the feed coal was better than in the same period last year though, as steel