Blow At High Dough – Elevated Prices & Government Incentives Lift Profit Cycle Risk For Some Chemicals

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Blow At High Dough – Elevated Prices & Government Incentives Lift Profit Cycle Risk For Some Chemicals

Key Points:

• The global commodity chemical industry faces profit cycle risk from energy producers expanding downstream and gov’t incentives favoring “new” technology deployments.
• We discuss issues with the Freeport LNG start-up and NW Europe natural gas price strength relative to US levels, which is a near-term plus for US chemical producers.
• We highlight Olin initiatives to maximize the values of the ECU and why this helps new technologies/other producers advance their projects, a potential long-term risk.
• We discuss the Yara agreement to ship green fertilizer to Argentina to decarbonize potato production and the global EV deployment impact on power grid reliability.
• We discuss the latest US job report, highlight announced layoffs at Amazon and Walmart, and flag Kroger’s view that food price inflation is beginning to moderate.

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