Asphalt Weekly Monitor
- Easter Holiday weekend brings Thursday close to most market activity this week.
- East Coast and Gulf Coast asphalt retail market assessments are unchanged for the week.
- East Coast and Gulf Coast wholesale paving grade asphalt prices are steadfast.
- Roofing flux retail prices narrow in some East Coast and Gulf Coast markets.
- Midwest retail prices are mostly steady, but some wholesale prices firm slightly this week.
- Rocky Mountain region prices are unchanged this week for retail and wholesale supply.
- Asphalt prices are steady in West Coast areas this last week of March.
- Western Canada prices are steady this week.
- Eastern Canada retail and wholesale prices are unchanged again this week.
- May NYMEX WTI crude prices rose sharply to $97.23 per bbl–up $3.52 for the week.
- Spot Western Canadian Select (WCS) disc to May WTI dropped $2 to about $14.25/bbl this week. Disc was over $40 a bbl early this wntr
- May Brent-to-WTI crude premium dropped $2, going to $12/bbl by week’s end.
- Construction of new refinery breaks ground in North Dakota this week (see Industry News).
- ExxonMobil’s Pegasus crude oil pipeline has a spill in Arkansas (see Industry News).
