Asphalt Weekly Monitor
- Asphalt Institute meetings held in Ft. Lauderdale this week—it was well attended.
- East Coast retail asphalt and flux price ranges are unchanged for the week.
- East Coast wholesale asphalt and flux wholesale pricing remains steady this week.
- Midwest retail prices were mostly steady, but lower prices reported for December wholesale.
- Gulf Coast retail asphalt and flux prices are status quo for this week.
- Gulf Coast wholesale asphalt assessment is steady, with the flux price range flat as well.
- Rocky Mountain retail markets go quiet—wholesale prices decline for December product.
- West Coast selling ranges slip lower in the Pacific Northwest and California this week.
- Western Canada had frigid Prairie Provinces and steady retail prices—wholesale prices slip.
- Quebec prices are unchanged for the week, with cold weather making demand very scant.
- Some Quebec marketers ceased posted prices for the season this week, others expected to follow suit within the next two weeks.
- Ontario prices are steady for the week, with activity all but done for the season.
- January NYMEX West Texas Int. crude (WTI) jumps to $97.65 a bbl.—up $4.87 this week.
- Western Canadian Select (WCS) oil is $31 below WTI for January–$28 under for February.
- January North Sea Brent crude rises $2.11, to $111.80 a bbl—about $14 over WTI.
