The blog’s forecasting record is reviewed in ICIS Chemical Business this week. Click here if you would like a copy. The blog’s aim is to “highlight relevant information for the busy executive, and to provide relevant and actionable analysis of key issues”. The article particularly notes the blog’s willingness to challenge consensus forecasts.
The blog has warned for over a year that the chemical industry faced a global downturn. It has developed a good track record on forecasting movements in oil prices, and it also forecast the global financial crisis in early September under the heading ‘the price of all assets will go down’.