Industry execs maintain cheer, caution at NCC meet

摘要

Coal industry executives remained cheerful last week but gritted their teeth as they looked forward to an end to the headwinds buffeting the markets. And the back half of 2015 was the optimistic outlook. Last week, analyst Casey Kaptur and Arch Coal President and CEO John Eaves - yielded friendly, steady-as-she-goes-Mr.-Sulu observations about the state of the railroads and the coal markets amidst the headwinds from the EPA and White House, and that ol' loyal-as-lawyers mentality from Wall Street which has blown many coal producers' stock away to record lows.