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Carbon Diverges From Fossil Fuels on Oversupply, Barclays Says
2011-01-17 15:38:05.278 GMT
By Mathew Carr
Jan. 17 (Bloomberg) -- European Union carbon prices have
diverged from power, natural gas and coal prices because the
economic recession has made the market oversupplied, said
Barclays Plc.
"EU allowances are now not consistently correlating with
key fossil fuels and periods of temporary high correlation are
more coincidence than cause," analysts including London-based
Trevor Sikorski said in an e-mailed report dated today. "This
state of affairs should continue until the market tightens to a
point when fuel switching becomes needed to balance the
market."
Prices move mainly when there's an imbalance between
factories, which are selling spare permits, and power utilities,
which need to fill shortages, Barclays said. "Carbon-market
dynamics have become much more about when industrial
participants are selling against when utilities are buying."
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