Asphalt Weekly Monitor
- Asphalt Institute meeting in Tucson, Arizona was well attended.
- Infrastructure to be a priority for new US Administration.
- December asphalt price reductions reported in many US markets this week.
- MassHighways adopts AWM for asphalt price escalation starting December, 2008.
- Gulf Coast retail and wholesale flux prices assessed lower.
- Wholesale asphalt prices slipped in the Rockies and Midwest.
- Asphalt markets remained an attractive alternative to fuel oil and coker feed.
- WTI crude oil prices plunged $13.62 per barrel to close at $40.81 per barrel.
