Asphalt Weekly Monitor
- This issue and next week’s are abbrev. for Holidays. Price tables has limited text. Regular format returns in 2013.
- East Coast markets are flat this week—no changes noted for retail and wholesale product.
- Midwest asphalt prices status quo for retail–more terminals close for winter
- Midwest wholesale prices assessed modestly lower for rail supply of paving grade material.
- Gulf Coast retail asphalt and flux prices are flat, with wholesale prices generally steady.
- Rockies wholesale supply is assessed in a tighter band–little moving at upper end of range.
- West Coast retail markets are unchanged going into the holiday weekend.
- Canada prices are steady. Quebec marketer posted prices will resume in spring 2013.
- February NYMEX WTI crude ends at $88.66–up $1.41 versus the previous week.
- Western Canadian Select (WCS) crude discount to WTI shrinks to near $34/bbl this week.
- January Brent-to-WTI crude premiums remain over $21/bbl—and about $20 for February.
