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China polyethylene inventories are high

      A Mars Bar feast in store if crude hits $30/bbl again Source of Picture: Amazon.com       Polyethylene (PE) inventories in China at the second and third local distributor levels are at very high levels, two reliable industry sources have told us.   This has led to some confusion in the […]

Credit Expansion Linked To Dalian Boom?

Source of Picture: http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/ We have just started doing our research and so more details later – but see attached this Excel spreadsheet – lendingVDalianOI.xls It compares the increase in lending from China’s banks with the amount of open interest in the Dalian Commodity Exchange’s linear-low density polyethylene (LLDPE) futures contracts. Volume traded on the […]

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