Daily Chemical Reaction
Go Your Own Way – Chemical Market Indicators May Worsen In 4Q22, Agriculture Likely To Stay Strong
Key Points:
- We think considerable fundamental risk surrounds most US chemical sub-sectors into year-end, limiting our optimism towards them relative to agriculture and fertilizer.
- We highlight US LNG development commentary, the weak argument for implementing a windfall tax on US energy, and the continuation of elevated US refinery margins.
- We highlight DuPont, Ashland, Evonik, and other chemical sector business updates, and we provide our views on the nimbleness of DuPont’s strategy under Ed Breen.
- We highlight significant news flow from COP27, with many countries reiterating their ESG commitments despite most lacking a viable framework to meet them.
- We discuss recent global freight rate developments, pointing out that those targeting the US showed support WoW while US export market rates, on average, fell WoW.
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