28 Aug 2023
Although most traded PP contracts on the Dalian Commodity Exchange gathered a minor gain of CNY11/ton ($2/ton) on the first trading day of the week, investors seemed not motivated enough to participate in larger trading volumes.
Indeed, HDPE commands steeper gains thanks to the limited supply regionwide while the emergence of previously purchased PP cargoes at lower costs seems to cap the upside of this sector.
The drastic surge in the local inventories is attributed to the sluggish transactions last Friday coupled with the month end closing that usually lead producers to suspend their spot offerings.
Trading sentiment on the Shenhua auction platform follow the pricing movement on the Dalian Commodity Exchange closely on the first day of the week.
25 Aug 2023
Despite some reductions in HDPE and LDPE outputs among local plants in the month of July 2023, the overall PP, PE, and PVC production in China witnessed a gain of 2.9%
Even though trading sentiment in the local market fell sharply toward the weekend, Sinopec and CNPC managed to deplete the collective PP and PE inventories below the 600,000 tons threshold
Compared to the domestic spot market, the coal-based producer is more sensitive to the market movement. At the first sight of a slowdown in purchasing interest, Shenhua immediately stepped back on auction prices
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