Asphalt Weekly Monitor
- Paving work winds down going into US Fourth of July Holiday and July 1 Canada Day.
- East Coast rack price ranges slip lower in most markets.
- East Coast wholesale prices steady for paving grades – lower for some roofing flux markets.
- Midwest wholesale markets ease lower for barge and rail paving grades as well as flux.
- Many Midwest retail prices slip to lower levels on July price cuts and limited demand.
- Gulf Coast retail markets decline in many areas.
- Gulf Coast wholesale prices assessments lower for paving grades.
- Flux wholesale and rack prices slip in many Gulf Coast locations.
- Rocky Mountain retail assessments head lower as do wholesale markets.
- West Coast asphalt markets ease lower in several locations—others steady.
- Assessed selling prices in Quebec and Ontario ease lower again.
- Prompt month WTI crude plummets almost ten percent, to $72.23 per barrel at week’s end.
