China’s coal futures fell 8% to their downward limit in night trading on Tuesday as the state planner said it was looking at ways to intervene and bring record high prices of the fuel back down to a “reasonable range”. The most-traded thermal coal contract on the Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange , for delivery in January, fell to 1,755.40 yuan ($275) a tonne, having touched an all-time peak of 1,982 yuan in Tuesday’s daytime session amid a widening power crunch and the onset of cold weather. A shortage of coal, […]