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shortage.life
v0.3 · brussels · build f3a2c81
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$ shortage commodity get COA.NEW
> spot: $126/t
> stress_index: 0.58 WATCH
> updated 14:26 UTC

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BRENT     $72.13/b 
TTF       €44.25/MWh 
OPEC_ORB  n/a
SPR_US    331.2 Mb 
FAO_FFPI  130.8 
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BRENT$72.13● 0.0%TTF€44.25● 0.0%HH$3.25● 0.0%SPR_US331.2 Mb17.0dEU_GAS47.7%18c avgFAO_FFPI130.8▼0.2%WHT$6.00/bu● 0.0%BRENT$72.13● 0.0%TTF€44.25● 0.0%HH$3.25● 0.0%SPR_US331.2 Mb17.0dEU_GAS47.7%18c avgFAO_FFPI130.8▼0.2%WHT$6.00/bu● 0.0%
~/commodities/coal-thermal·category: energycite · /api/v1/commodities/COA.NEW

Thermal Coal / COA.NEW

energy$/tupdated: 14:26 UTC
WATCH
SPOT · $/t$126/t
Δ24H▲0.40%
Δ7D▲1.10%
Δ30D▼3.20%
STRESS · v3.20.58

[ 00 ]  $_SERIES · COA.NEW · spot trend

COA.NEW · $/tlast 126
READ MODE// long-form zoneEDITORIAL · commodity analysisdesk: Markets·last revision 14:26 UTC
Commodity analysis · COA.NEW · v3.2

Thermal Coal, and what the reading means.

Newcastle benchmark thermal coal, the marker for Asian power-station fuel. Watched for winter demand and Chinese import policy.

Desk Markets·EN · FR · ES, DE pending·sources: EIA, OPEC, IEA, FAO, USDA

What is Thermal Coal?

Thermal Coal (COA.NEW) is a energy commodity tracked by shortage.life with a live spot of $126/t and a v3.2 stress index of 0.58. Quoted in $/t, the price is sourced from primary institutional feeds and refreshed on the cadence documented at /methodology.

Newcastle benchmark thermal coal, the marker for Asian power-station fuel. Watched for winter demand and Chinese import policy. At the latest reading, Thermal Coal prints a spot of $126/t — a move of ▲0.40% over the past twenty-four hours and ▼3.20% across the trailing thirty days.

The v3.2 stress index places COA.NEW at 0.58 — a watch reading on a composite that blends price momentum, inventory cover, supplier concentration and geopolitical exposure. The metric is recomputed on every ingestion cycle, and the weekly delta is the line worth tracking rather than the absolute level.

For operators, the question is not the spot itself but the buffer behind it. A tightening reading on Thermal Coal compounds with any incident on a shared transit route or producer, and the cascade is rarely linear. The scenarios below carry COA.NEW as an explicit input — each one is wargamed and reviewed against this commodity's exposure profile.

Frequently asked

What is the current Thermal Coal price?
The current Thermal Coal spot price is $126/t, refreshed in real time on shortage.life from primary institutional sources. The shortage.life v3.2 stress index reading is 0.58 — see /methodology for how the composite is computed and how the components are weighted.
How does Thermal Coal get its stress score?
Every commodity in our 70-item table gets a 0-1 composite stress index blending: (i) price momentum vs trailing average, (ii) inventory cover where available, (iii) supplier concentration via HHI on top-five exporters, (iv) geopolitical-event density tagged to the commodity, and (v) substitution flexibility. Weights are versioned at /methodology v3.2.
Where can I get Thermal Coal data via API?
All shortage.life data is published under CC-BY-4.0 with mandatory attribution. The REST endpoint is https://api.shortage.life/v1/commodities/coal-thermal returning JSON. An MCP server is available at mcp.shortage.life for AI agents. The current dataset reading is included as schema.org Dataset metadata in the page head.

[ 01 ]  $_SCENARIOS · with COA.NEW exposure

No active scenario currently carries Thermal Coal as an explicit input.

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