China's major steel companies saw their profitability improve in May as demand picked up, the latest data showed.

Germany's lower parliament Bundestag approved the gradual coal phase-out by 2038 on Friday.

Vietnam spent more than four billion U.S. dollars importing roughly 6.8 million tons of steel and iron in the first six months of this year.

In releasing its "Recover Better With Sustainable Energy Guide for African Countries" on Tuesday.

Indonesian coal producers plan to cut coal outputs in the hope of bolstering prices, an association has said.

China Taiyuan coal transaction price index stood at 125.07 points Monday, up 0.55 percent week on week.

China's steel scrap consumption soared by 15% to 2159.3 million tons in 2019, compared with 187.7 million tons in 2018, which shows that China is the largest scrap consumer in the world.

The growth of China's CPI will pause downside trending in June, as the major inflation indicator saw its year-on-year increase slow for the fourth consecutive month at 5.2 percent in February, 4.3 percent in March.