By John Richardson Manufacturers yesterday reported rising output and improved employment prospects in the US, Europe and Asia. China’s Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI), involving a survey of more than 700 manufacturers, increased for the eighth straight month in a row – and is now back to where it was in May 2008. This is exactly […]
Asian Chemical Connections
China Export Gains Raise Sustainability Fears
Source of picture: www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23512037/ CHINA is making export gains at the expense of other higher-cost competitors that might not be sustainable because of reasons including rising trade protectionism and economic rebalancing. Chemical companies need to factor in this risk – and take into account how overall demand might merely be shifting location […]
Benzene heads south – as predicted
Back from less-than-sunny Perth to discover that the prediction from my good friend and colleague Paul Hodges at International eChem has come true: Benzene has headed south because of: 1.) The rise in its pricing seems to have been out-of-kilter with what has happening downstream in styrene 2.) Traders credit might well have stampeded for […]
Off to Oz again so no entries for the next week
No, I can’t do this Source of picture: perthperth.com/surfing/bodysurfing Dear Reader, Off to Australia for a week’s leave so no more entries and so will post again from 31 August. Fair Dinkum
Aussie on a losing wicket
The timing of when to strike the ball is everything in the wonderful sport of cricket – and also, apparently, in the American pastime of baseball. An Australian banker is fond of reminding the English how much better his country is at playing cricket. But his gloating doesn’t extend to how well he’s been timing […]
Waiting for the dead cat to bounce
Free-falling felines, dead-count bound, chemical-market rebounds, financial meltdown
In search of corporate paradise
Financial meltdown, Virgin Blue, the perfect boss, slow email replies, Brett Godfrey, the Australian Financial Review, airline industry
Would you pass the Koala Bear test?
carbon footprint, Yanchep National Park, Perth, Western Australia, globalisation
Fair dinkum, Bruce, Sheila etc
Western Australia, holidays, Scarborough Beach,
Tainted food hits polymer sales
Cadbury, China civil unrest, financial meltdown, Tainted food
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