Sinopec Sales Company listed benzene prices steady, under the uniform implementation of 6000 yuan / ton refinery benzene.

The United States FOB benzene Market Gulf News 234-234.1 cents / gallon, equivalent to US $702-702.3 / ton.

Market summary: in November 24th, the New York commodity exchange closed, electronic trading, West Texas light crude oil futures in January in the $47.80-48.26 range trading; London Intercontinental Exchange, January 2017 Brent crude futures settlement price of 49 U.S. dollars / barrel, rose 0.05 U.S. dollars / barrel, rose 0.1%. Follow up buying downstream slightly slow, but still high just need to discuss, hydrogenation of benzene price has been high, the market supply less.

Benzene is a rapid rise in the near future, the outer disk continued to rise on the domestic market leading, on the other hand is domestic supply continued tight, the seller’s market to pull up. But also because of the tight supply of benzene downstream market prices, followed by the raw material market. The short term, the market is hard to change the pattern of tight supply, high operation.