PWNI - Index up one point as urea market remains firm

While it has been a bumpy week for urea, there is no indication that the market will deviate from the current upward trend.

The PWNI saw a modest gain to 161.59 from 160.51. Profercy's quoted price ranges for urea saw a small depreciation in the Yuzhnyy index value, while the Egyptian and Arab Gulf ranges saw either an increase or no change on last week. Indeed, the conclusion of today's Pakistan purchasing tender above $350pt cfr confirmed the stability in the urea market in the East.

Notably, Yuzhnyy ammonia values were responsible for 0.75 of the PWNI increase this week. While the ammonia market has been weak of late (as witnessed by the recent drop in the Tampa cfr price), supply curtailments in North Africa and elsewhere have seen high spot prices paid by those requiring prompt cargoes from the Black Sea. This saw an increase in the range for ammonia prices in the latest Profercy Nitrogen Weekly Report. Without the increase on last week, the PWNI would have seen an even more modest increase of just 0.33 points.

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