The accompanying 5-month chart presents an analysis of the global price of near-month coal futures contracts from the U.S. (QL – Central Appalachian NYMEX Coal Futures), South Africa (AFR – Richards Bay ICE Coal Futures), and Europe (ATW – Rotterdam ICE Coal Futures) compared to the Market Vectors Coal ETF (KOL), U.S. Natural Gas Fund (UNG, and U.S. Oil Fund (USO). Although this is not a huge amount of historical data, the past five months presents an interesting analysis given the tremendous volati



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