# The price of phosphate may have peaked_Guangxi Qinzhou Capital Success Chemical Co., Ltd.

> Phosphate prices may have peaked as high raw yellow phosphorus prices stabilize and downstream demand weakens, with export activity not improving. The market is consolidating near the end of the off-season. Yellow phosphorus prices surged to about 17,500 yuan per ton after energy-conservation curbs constrained output, lifting downstream products such as sodium tripolyphosphate.

- Date: 2020-04-22 · published 2020-04-22T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: market · region China · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/53945-the-price-of-phosphate-may-have-peaked-guangxi-qinzhou-capital-success-chemical
- Commodities: [DAP](https://feedsoft.ai/c/DAP.md), [Phosphate Rock](https://feedsoft.ai/c/PHOSROCK.md)

## Why it matters

Softer phosphate prices reduce input cost pressure for feed phosphate and fertilizer buyers, though energy-conservation curbs in China could support prices again later in the year.

## Read by commodity

- DAP: bearish ▼
- PHOSROCK: neutral

## Linked price moves

| Commodity | Date | Window | Change % | z-score | Why linked |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| DAP | 2020-04-30 | 1 | -5.8% | -20.8 | Chinese phosphate market commentary says prices may have peaked as yellow phosphorus costs stabilize, downstream demand weakens and exports stay sluggish, a bearish sentiment signal for DAP. |

## Sources

- en.gxcschem.com: https://en.gxcschem.com/news_detail/1592769145694142464.html

---
Data from Feedsoft AI (https://feedsoft.ai/). For information only; not investment advice.