Entries from Asian Chemical Connections tagged with 'OECD'

Consensus Confidence For 2013

By John Richardson THE consensus view is that Chinese growth will be fine at the very least for the first half of this year, and possibly for the whole of 2013, thanks to all the money still sloshing around the...

New Business Mindset Needed

By John Richardson THE global chemicals industry became used to healthy and steady rates of demand growth during the "Great Moderation" in the West, before the 2008 crisis. As fellow blogger Paul Hodges wrote in January of this year:...

When I'm 64

Will you still need me? Will you still feed me? The Beatles asked the right questions back in 1967, when singing 'When I'm Sixty-Four' on their iconic Sergeant Pepper album. What would happen to the Western BabyBoomers when they became...

Some important new petchem trends

To keep you updated on what we believe is happening in petrochemicals, here are some important recent trends: *Futures markets in China are playing an increasingly important role in influencing pricing in polyolefins, methanol and PTA. Trading volume on...