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Chemicals Demand Is Not Going To Return To Normal

By John Richardson EUROPEAN cracker operators are rushing to snap-up naphtha prices before prices rise again, reports my colleague Nigel Davis, in another of his excellent Insight articles. “The lower crude price seems to be driving downstream demand. Europe’s crackers are said to be running flat out,” adds Nigel, who has tapped into the market intelligence […]

Waiting for the cheques to clear….

…..and a January collapse PERHAPS commodity and equity markets will continue to keep denying the weak fundamentals until bonus cheques for fund managers etc have been signed and are in the bank. Fund managers, because of the way they are benchmarked, will be desperate to stick close to the performance of stock market indices, said […]

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