US chem shares fall as stock market resumes sell-off
Al Greenwood
10-Apr-2025
HOUSTON (ICIS)–US-listed shares of chemical companies fell sharply on Thursday as the stock market resumed its sell-off after the previous day’s massive rally.
Many chemical shares fell faster than the general market with some declining by double digits.
The following table shows the major indices followed by ICIS.
| Index | 10-Apr | Change | % |
| Dow Jones Industrial Average | 39,593.66 | -1,014.79 | -2.50% |
| S&P 500 | 5,268.05 | -188.86 | -3.46% |
| Dow Jones US Chemicals Index | 747.29 | -28.97 | -3.73% |
| S&P 500 Chemicals Industry Index | 801.90 | -27.63 | -3.33% |
Thursday’s sell-off offset a big chunk of the rally from the previous day, which saw the Dow Jones Industrial Average rise by nearly 8%.
On that day the US reduced the size of nearly every reciprocal tariff it is imposing on countries to 10%.
The exception was China, for which the US increased the size of the reciprocal tariffs to 125%. In all, the US has increased its tariff rate on Chinese imports by 145% in 2025.
The European Commission has since imposed a pause on the retaliatory tariffs that it was prepared to impose on US exports, many of which were plastics and chemicals.
The EU’s retaliatory tariffs would be in response to duties that the US imposed on European shipments of steel and aluminium.
The following table shows the US-listed shares followed by ICIS.
| Name |
$ Current
Price | $ Change | % Change |
| AdvanSix | 20.09 | -1.02 | -4.83% |
| Avient | 30.51 | -2.38 | -7.24% |
| Axalta Coating Systems | 30.24 | -1.52 | -4.79% |
| Braskem | 3.32 | 0.05 | 1.53% |
| Chemours | 10.815 | -1.065 | -8.96% |
| Celanese | 37.66 | -6.24 | -14.21% |
| DuPont | 57.53 | -4.42 | -7.13% |
| Dow | 27.205 | -2.655 | -8.89% |
| Eastman | 75.97 | -5.51 | -6.76% |
| HB Fuller | 51.8 | -1.98 | -3.68% |
| Huntsman | 13.385 | -0.875 | -6.14% |
| Kronos Worldwide | 6.68 | -0.43 | -6.05% |
| LyondellBasell | 54.21 | -5.62 | -9.39% |
| Methanex | 26.25 | -4.04 | -13.34% |
| NewMarket | 548.87 | -0.79 | -0.14% |
| Ingevity | 31.21 | -2.19 | -6.56% |
| Olin | 19.62 | -2.36 | -10.74% |
| PPG | 98.57 | -4.54 | -4.40% |
| RPM International | 102.12 | -3.52 | -3.33% |
| Stepan | 47.36 | -2.33 | -4.69% |
| Sherwin-Williams | 329.66 | -6.59 | -1.96% |
| Tronox | 4.97 | -0.42 | -7.79% |
| Trinseo | 3.31 | -0.02 | -0.60% |
| Westlake | 86.95 | -6.78 | -7.23% |
Visit the ICIS US tariffs, policy – impact on chemicals and energy topic page.
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