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Jennifer Song
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Surging Coal Prices Drove Positive 2016 Profit Alerts for Coal Companies.

The positive 2016 profit alerts from China’s coal companies are within expectations, with profit rebounds driven by higher coal prices. The benchmark Bohai-Rim Steam-Coal Price Index, or BSPI, closed at CNY 593 per tonne on Dec. 28, up 60% year over year. While the peak heating season should keep prices elevated over the next few months, we think coal prices will start to decline by the end of the first quarter of 2017 to be around 15%-20% below where they are now. Recent long-term thermal coal ...
Underlying
China Shenhua Energy Co. Ltd. Class A

China Shenhua Energy and its subsidiaries are engaged in the production and sale of coal; the generation and sale of power; and providing transportation services in the People's Republic of China (the "PRC"). Co. operates coal mines as well as an integrated railway network and seaports that are used to transport Co.'s coal sales. The primary customers of Co.'s coal sales include power plants and metallurgical producers in the PRC. Co. also operates power plants in the PRC, which are engaged in the generation and sale of coal-based power to provincial or regional electric grid companies.

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Morningstar
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