Asphalt Weekly Monitor
- The Asphalt Institute held its annual winter meeting December 5-7, in Carlsbad, California, with record attendance noted.
- East Coast retail asphalt and flux prices steady – wholesale prices unchanged as well.
- Midwest retail markets steady in most areas—but some price decline and others are raised for the start of December.
- Midwest wholesale barge and rail prices decline significantly for the start of the new month.
- Gulf Coast retail asphalt and flux prices steady – wholesale prices also steady.
- Rockies wholesale prices head lower for December.
- West Coast US prices are mostly unchanged.
- Western Canada markets are quiet.
- In Quebec and Ontario, retail prices remain unchanged this week.
- Some Quebec marketers cease posted prices until the spring of 2013.
- January NYMEX WTI crude ends the week at $85.93 per barrel—down $2.98 this week.
- Western Canadian Select (WCS) discount to WTI crude oil climbs to $32-33 per bbl.
- January Brent-to-WTI crude premiums are just over $21 per bbl by week’s end.
