Asphalt Weekly Monitor
15 Sept 2017
- Hurricane Irma slams Florida this week, as western Gulf Coast recovers from Harvey.
- East Coast retail and wholesale prices steady for both asphalt and flux this week.
- Flat Midwest wholesale prices were reported, as assessed selling ranges go unchanged.
- Midwest retail markets are steady in all but a few locations.
- Gulf Coast retail asphalt and flux prices assessed unchanged.
- Gulf Coast wholesale asphalt and flux prices are unmoved this week.
- Rocky Mountain prices were static this week for retail and wholesale.
- West Coast asphalt markets were steady. Demand remains seasonably robust.
- British Columbia’s Province-wide state of emergency is at an end as of midnight, Sept 15.
- Asphalt selling and posted prices are steadfast across western Canada.
- Selling/posted prices are reportedly lower in Quebec this week. Ontario retail prices are flat.
- Crude oil prices moved sharply higher this week. US oil production jumps in the latest weekly data, by half million barrels a day, but not yet back to pre-Hurricane Harvey levels.
