Asphalt Weekly Monitor
10 Apr 2015
- East Coast retail selling ranges for asphalt slip lower in most areas — flux unchanged.
- Wholesale asphalt prices ease slightly, with flux prices steady on the East Coast.
- Midwest wholesale prices are unchanged, but some retail selling ranges slip.
- Gulf Coast retail assessments move lower in a few areas –flux prices are steady.
- Gulf Coast area barge asphalt prices slip slightly lower – flux pricing unchanged.
- Rocky Mountain prices are steady, except for a few retail areas.
- Some West Coast selling ranges slip a bit, but other markets are status quo.
- Western Canada retail markets were status quo–wholesale prices are in a narrower range.
- Quebec selling prices are assessed in a lower, wider range–Ontario is assessed status quo.
- May WTI crude rises $2.50, to $51.64, despite US oil production and inventories going up.
- May Brent crude rose to $57.87 a bbl, up $2.92. Brent premium to WTI just over $6.
- May Canadian WCS gains $3, nearing $40 a bbl FOB Alberta—or $11.70 under WTI.
