Asphalt Weekly Monitor
24 May 2024
- U.S. markets wound down this week heading into the Monday Memorial Day holiday weekend.
- East Coast retail asphalt and flux pricing remained steady in the region for the week.
- This week’s assessments for asphalt and flux barges on the East Coast are unchanged.
- Midwest barge sales were concluded in the lower part of last week’s range. This week, the assessed range is narrower and lower. Prices for May rail supply and roofing flux were unchanged.
- Midwest rack market prices are assessed lower in the upper Midwest, with other spots unchanged.
- Gulf Coast rack asphalt rack and flux retail prices were status quo across the region this week.
- Gulf Coast asphalt barges, flux barges, and rail pricing held steady this week, with markets quiet.
- Rocky Mountain regional rack selling prices were flat for this pre-holiday week.
- Wholesale asphalt prices for the remaining May supply were unchanged.
- In the West Coast, Pacific Northwest and California location prices were status quo.
- In western Canada, both retail and wholesale markets were unchanged versus the previous week.
- In eastern Canada, this week both Quebec and Ontario markets reported lower selling prices.
- Oil prices declined for all benchmark grades this week versus the previous week.
