Asphalt Weekly Monitor
11 Nov 2016
- East Coast retail asphalt and flux prices are steadfast for the week.
- East Coast wholesale asphalt and flux price ranges are unmoved.
- Midwest retail markets were mostly steady, with only a few slipping lower.
- Midwest wholesale asphalt prices assessed firmer for November, with roofing flux prices flat.
- Gulf Coast retail asphalt and flux markets have no price changes this week.
- Gulf Coast wholesale asphalt prices narrow and firm, with wholesale flux prices steady.
- Rockies wholesale prices go to higher reported November levels.
- Retail assessments slip lower in Arizona, New Mexico and Nevada this week.
- West Coast selling price assessments were static, as they were in Alaska and Hawaii.
- Western Canada asphalt retail prices are steady. Alberta wholesale is in a narrower range.
- Selling and posted prices in both Montreal and Toronto are unchanged.
- Crude prices slip further–December WTI closes at $43.41 a bbl, down $0.66 for the week.
- January Brent crude eases, to $44.75, off $0.83 a barrel, versus previous Friday.
- December Western Canadian Select oil (WCS) slips almost $1, to about $28 FOB Alberta.
