Asphalt Weekly Monitor
- Easter Holiday closes many US markets on Friday–Monday is a Holiday in Canada
- East Coast demand is picking up, as weather allows: retail prices slip in some areas.
- East Coast wholesale asphalt prices are lower for the week, with markets active.
- Midwest retail selling prices are status quo, wholesale rail prices assessed in a tighter range.
- Gulf Coast retail asphalt, retail flux and wholesale flux prices are unchanged for the week.(2)
- Gulf Coast wholesale asphalt prices status quo for the week, with active markets.
- Rockies wholesale prices are steady at April levels—supply remains tight.
- Rockies retail prices were unchanged this week.
- West Coast prices are status quo, but some unconfirmed changes noted in Washington.
- Western Canada prices were steady, with most areas slowly getting started for the season.
- Eastern Canada price ranges assessed steady for the week, with activity picking up.
- In Montreal, some companies began posting their posted prices this week.
- Crude prices are firm—June NYMEX West Texas Int. (WTI) ends week at $103.37 a bbl.
- June Western Canadian Select (WCS) crude rises near $86—or $18.30 below June WTI.
