DAILY: China's coking coal prices edge up further

China's coking coal market continued to improve on April 14, underpinned mainly by better transactions of lower-priced coal types, sources noted. Despite a growing optimism, participants opted to remain cautious about the near-term market outlook.

On Tuesday, Mysteel assessed China's national composite coking coal price at Yuan 1,326.7/tonne ($194.6/t) including the 13% VAT, edging up another Yuan 2/t from the previous session. This uptick was driven by a heated trading atmosphere in the coking coal market recently, according to market sources. "Some coal mines had