Bears out of hibernation at Spring Coal Forum

摘要

Word on the street is that the export market is doomed beforethe end of the year, if not sooner.Or the word on the street is the export market may have a lullhere and there – remember last year’s Q2 doldrums – but deals arestill being done even as this is wrote … writ … whatever.Turns out that the street that the same words are being spokenon is Mandalay Avenue in Clearwater Beach, Fla., where theAmerican Coal Council hosted last week its Spring Coal Forum atthe swanky Sandpearl Resort. The beach is where you expect tosee seagulls and pelicans flying around, not bulls and bears lockedin a death match.