Asphalt Weekly Monitor
30 Oct 2015
- East Coast retail asphalt cement prices steady or weaker, flix prices remain unchanged.
- East Coast wholesale asphalt ranges slip or narrow, with flux wholesale flat.
- Midwest retail selling ranges go mostly lower, as some suppliers implement big price cuts.
- Midwest wholesale markets continue to slide lower for this last week of October.
- Gulf Coast retail asphalt ranges mostly steady, with some slippage, flux has no changes.
- The wholesale Gulf Coast asphalt and flux ranges are steady for the week.
- Retail selling price assessments are steady or lower in Rockies markets, as activity shrinks.
- Wholesale Rockies prices ease lower for this last October week, as demand eases.
- West Coast retail prices ease in a few locations.
- Western Canada retail assessments are flat–Alberta wholesale prices go lower.
- Eastern Canada selling and posted price ranges are steady. Quebec holds a tender.
- Oil prices go higher this week–December WTI closed $46.59/bbl, up $1.99/bbl the week.
- December Brent rises $1.57 a bbl this week, ending at $49.56 a bbl—i.e. $3 above WTI.
- December West. Canada’s WCS rises to $32 a bbl FOB Alberta—about $14.75 below WTI.
