Asphalt Weekly Monitor
20 Nov 2015
- East Coast retail asphalt cement prices mostly steady, with some price slippages.
- East Coast wholesale asphalt ranges ease lower or hold steady, with flux pricing steadfast.
- Some Midwest posted/reference prices are reduced this week, as were some selling ranges.
- Midwest wholesale barge prices reported at lower levels.
- Gulf Coast retail asphalt ranges are mostly unchanged, with some flux prices also flat.
- The wholesale Gulf Coast asphalt and flux ranges status quo for the week.
- Most Rocky Mountain selling prices are steady, with rack activity very limited.
- Rocky Mountain wholesale prices are steady for November asphalt supplies.
- West Coast retail prices were steady this week, with paving work limited in most areas.
- Western Canada retail and posted prices steady, with wintry weather in some areas.
- Selling prices are flat in eastern Canada, with unusual warm weather and good liftings.
- Crude oil prices firm, but WTI tests the $40 level before recovering. January WTI prices end the week at $41.90 a bbl, up $1.16 versus last week’s close for December WTI.
- January Brent was up $0.19, to end the week at $44.66 a bbl, or almost $3 above WTI.
- January WCS crude rises to almost $27 a bbl FOB Alberta, still about $15 below WTI.
