India coal asset valuation is moving to the centre of national policy as the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) proposes a new accounting framework that assigns a monetary worth to the country’s underground coal reserves. Rather than tracking coal purely through production and consumption volumes, the proposed methodology would treat coal deposits as natural capital assets, estimating their present economic value using the Net Present Value (NPV) method and internationally recognised environmental accounting standards.
South Asia
Price Without a Pulse: CME’s South Asia Soybean Oil Futures (7IF) Have Yet to Record Their First Trade
South Asia Soybean Oil futures from CME Group, the 7IF contract designed to help Indian edible oil importers hedge their landed costs, have recorded no trading activity in the nearly four months since they were listed. According to CME’s own data for the trade date of 24 June 2026, every listed month carried a settlement … Read more