Asphalt Weekly Monitor
- East Coast retail prices mostly steady this week – ease in western Pennsylvania.
- Midwest wholesale prices for base paving grade continue to weaken.
- Gulf Coast wholesale prices also slip modestly this week.
- Gulf Coast asphalt cement retail prices steady.
- West Coast markets mostly steady – one mid-month incrase noted in northern California.
- Tesoro to temporarily curtail its Washington State refinery operations.
- Canada asphalt prices mostly steady this week – except Quebec, which rose sharply.
- Quebec Province held its first 2010 asphalt tender – prices far above last one held in 2009.
- WTI crude prices drop Friday, ending the week at $84.67 per barrel, off $0.25 for the week.
