Asphalt Weekly Monitor
- East Coast demand is strengthening, when weather allows: retail prices move higher in some areas to start May – wholesale prices are unchanged.
- Some East Coast flux retail and wholesale prices are unchanged for the week.
- Suppliers raise rack prices for May in the Midwest–wholesale prices rise for May supply.
- Retail Gulf Coast asphalt prices are higher in some locations to start May – flux steady.
- Wholesale Gulf Coast asphalt and flux prices are status quo for the week.
- Rockies wholesale prices go higher for May on tight supply.
- Retail markets firm at some Rocky Mountain regional racks.
- West Coast price go higher for May in the Pacific Northwest and California.
- Western Canada prices are mixed, with activity starting to improve.
- Quebec, Canada price ranges assessed within a narrower range for the week – liftings slow.
- Toronto, Canada price ranges hold steady this week, with markets active.
- June West Texas Int. (WTI) crude slips $0.84/barrel, going to $99.76/barrel by week’s end.
- June Brent prices go lower, by $1.08, to $108.60 a bbl. It is almost $9 above WTI.
- WCS prices are almost $83 a barrel, about $17 under WTI.
- CSX Train Carrying Crude Oil Derails in Virginia (See Industry News)
