Asphalt Weekly Monitor
28 Apr 2017
- East Coast retail asphalt and flux prices remain unchanged this week.
- East Coast wholesale price assessments and flux retail prices are status quo for the week.
- It was a slow and steady week for almost all Midwest asphalt and flux markets.
- Gulf Coast retail asphalt mostly steady, with some firming in AR and LA – flux is status quo.
- The wholesale asphalt and flux ranges on the Gulf Coast are steady for the week.
- Rocky Mountain retail prices were adjusted in a few locations, with the rest steady.
- Rockies wholesale prices flat for April asphalt—supply is good from some producers.
- West Coast assessments were mostly static. Alaska and Hawaii were flat as well.
- Western Canada selling and posted prices are steadfast from the previous week.
- Posted prices are unchanged in eastern Canada. Selling prices in Quebec are in a wider range, while selling prices increased in Ontario.
- Oil drifts a bit lower, as June WTI ends the week at $49.16/bbl, off by 46 cents for the week.
- June West. Can. Select crude (WCS) slips to about $39/bbl FOB Alberta, or $10 under WTI.
- June North Sea Brent oil eases 23 cents to $51.73 a bbl at week’s end.
