Asphalt Weekly Monitor
27 Nov 2015
- US market activity was limited for this Thanksgiving Holiday week.
- East Coast retail asphalt and flux prices unchanged for the week.
- East Coast wholesale asphalt and flux ranges hold steady.
- Midwest posted/reference prices, as well as selling ranges are steady for the holiday week.
- Midwest wholesale barge prices ease lower, with November rail prices unchanged.
- Gulf Coast retail asphalt and flux ranges are mostly flat – some Louisiana ranges narrowed.
- The wholesale Gulf Coast asphalt range slipped, with the flux range steady for the week.
- Rocky Mountain selling prices are steady with little rack activity. Wholesale prices are flat.
- West Coast markets are static, as retail liftings wane.
- Western Canada retail and posted prices are steady.
- Selling prices are flat in eastern Canada. Montreal posted prices are slightly lower.
- Crude oil prices were mixed. January WTI closed at $41.71 a bbl, off $0.19 for the week.
- January Brent was up $0.20 for the week, to $44.86 a bbl. That is over $3 above WTI.
- January WCS crude firms, to just over $27 a bbl FOB Alberta, or $14.65 below WTI.
