Platts editors look at the factors that are giving the polypropylene market a boost, the impact of a PP surplus in South Asia, and the slowing demand in China.
Shell has become the first major to take proper advantage of the low oil price, taking out a company that it has long been interested in buying, and the reason is a good one, says William Powell.
(Mon, 13 Apr 2015) Households in different regions of the United States have similar average combined spending on gasoline and public transit, but the composition of that spending varies significantly across regions. In 2013, the most recent year of data from the Labor Department's Consumer Expenditure Survey (CES), the average household spent $3,148 annually on gasoline and public transit.
WASHINGTON, April 13 (Reuters) - As the United States and Iran come closer to a historic nuclear deal, many U.S.
CAIMANES, Chile, April 12 (Reuters) - Alvaro Badillo remembers a time when his dad would take him fishing in the stream just a stone's throw away from the dusty streets of their small hometown of Caimanes in central Chile.
BEIJING, April 13 (Reuters) - China imported 80.34 million tonnes of crude oil in the first quarter of 2015, amounting to 6.52 million barrels per day (bpd) and up 7.5 percent compared to the same period of last year, the country's customs authority said on Monday.
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