Here is a first of a series of outlook articles for 2020 where I focus on the risks ahead for the gl...
ReadBy John Richardson THIS IS not a normal downcycle. Please get over that idea however many people, bo...
ReadBy John Richardson NOT since at least the beginning of 2014 have Northeast and Southeast Asian polye...
ReadBy John Richardson THE ASIAN polypropylene (PP) market hasn’t been as bad as the region’s polyet...
ReadBy John Richardson A SURE sign that the Asian ethylene-to-polyethylene (PE) markets are distressed c...
ReadBy John Richardson I was new to the game as I had only been analysing the petrochemicals business fo...
ReadBy John Richardson IT ALL seemed to make perfect sense at the time. Feedstock and financing were inc...
ReadBy John Richardson MALCOLM GLADWELL, in his very thought provoking book The Outliers, writes about w...
ReadBy John Richardson AS PETROCHEMICALS and other manufacturers scramble to relocate their businesses a...
ReadBy John Richardson DON’T SAY I didn’t tell you. An important new IMF study confirms what I’ve ...
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