31 Jan 2024
Trading sentiment in the domestic spot market started to show a clearer sign of slowing down with most small-scale converters having already left their desks for the Lunar New Year holiday.
Market players noted some remaining need-based purchases, but with many buyers either prepared or on an extended holiday, trading sentiment has weakened visibly.
30 Jan 2024
China’s Zhongjing Petrochemical decided to increase its export prices for its homo-PP yarn and biaxially oriented polypropylene (BOPP) film by $5/ton from the previous price announcement.
Vietnamese market participants reported having received fresh PE offers for March delivery from a major local producer with a VND300,000/ton ($12/ton) increase from the previous week
As anticipated, trading sentiment continues to weaken as more and more converters in the PP and PE sectors will be out of the office in celebration of the upcoming Lunar New Year holiday.
29 Jan 2024
More buyers have gone off on holidays and making preparations to usher into the Lunar New Year, resulting in a less active market.
In the span of two weeks, the Rupiah depreciated 1.9% to 15,756 to a dollar on 29 January 2024. A weaker local currency elevated commodity traded in that currency. However, buyers are not entirely fixated on the currency fluctuations.
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