Asphalt Weekly Monitor
- Retail and wholesale prices for paving asphalt and flux unchanged this week on East Coast.
- Midwest retail prices mostly steady, with demand winding down as weather deteriorates.
- Midwest wholesale paving grade prices unchanged— but flux assessed lower this week.
- Gulf Coast retail asphalt prices lower in some locations.
- Gulf Coast wholesale asphalt prices in a wider range.
- Roofing flux wholesale and retail prices ease lower in some locations.
- Rocky Mountain area retail prices steady this week—a few locations adjusted lower.
- Rockies wholesale prices at November range levels.
- West Coast retail markets ease in a few locations—others are unchanged.
- In Quebec and Ontario, retail prices unchanged for the week.
- January NYMEX WTI crude goes to $86.92 per barrel—up $0.37 for the week.
- Western Canadian Select (WCS) discount to WTI is over $30 per barrel.
- Brent-to-WTI crude premiums remain in the low-$20’s per barrel.