Daily Chemical Market Price Overview — November 4, 2026
Wednesday's full library is a thin-trade tape with a loud headline and a quiet book:
2,793 lines are tracked, 262 of which moved — 98 higher against 164 lower — with 2,531 frozen (90.6% of the feed) (tables print the movers, drifters and frozen premiums the scan surfaced, maximum one hundred lines per category, ranked by movement). The number that matters is not the 262 but the filter:
84 lines printed a double-digit daily change, yet only 20 survive the three-clock test — the other 64 are base events, the mechanical round-trip of a book that re-marked hard on Tuesday and gave the quote back on Wednesday.
Padimate +403.70% to CNY 544,000/ton and
boron trichloride -79.69% to CNY 13/kg are the loudest examples and the least tradable: the weekly clocks disagree with the day, and both simply restore the 11/03 quote. Strip those out and the session has a clean shape. On the up side
1,3-dichlorobenzene +40.22% to CNY 21,500/ton (weekly +20.88%, monthly +9.86%) and
trimethyl phosphate +27.89% to CNY 31,333/ton (weekly +15.45%, monthly +5.02%) are the two confirmed re-marks, all three clocks voting together. On the down side
1,4-butanediol dimethacrylate -38.30% to CNY 29,000/ton (weekly -33.96%, monthly -20.45%) and
N,N-dimethyloctadecylamine -37.14% to CNY 22,000/ton (weekly -39.70%, monthly -19.13%) are the acrylate and amine shelves conceding in step with their own month-long trend. The third divergence is the energy book:
kerosene +7.03% to CNY 9,900/ton (weekly +5.66%, monthly +10.29%) is the only confirmed energy print, and it went up on the same day the paper barrel fell more than 8%.
Three forces shaped Wednesday, and the first is a gap between two tapes.
The paper barrel broke, the tracked barrel did not. Xinhua reported WTI December settling at
USD 88.12/bbl (-8.29%) and Brent January at
USD 94.62/bbl (-8.67%) on the 4th, the sharpest one-day drop in months, after the US midterm elections lifted expectations that Washington would move to end the Iran conflict; Vice President Vance said the war cost the Republicans the election, and President Trump had told the Financial Times on the 3rd that the US had no plan to strike Iran immediately. Vortexa put October Hormuz throughput of crude, condensate and refined products at 17.1m bpd, down from 18.9m in September but still roughly 75% of pre-war levels, while EIA data showed a fifth straight weekly draw in US commercial crude stocks (-865,000 bbl) and distillate inventories at 99.26m bbl, the lowest since May 2003. On the Guidechem tracked sheet, by contrast,
WTI is frozen at USD 96/bbl and Brent eased only -0.95% to USD 104 — a domestic quote that has not yet absorbed the offshore settlement. Second,
Europe's gas is the cost leg that has not been passed through: the IEA's 3 November report put EU storage at about 75% of capacity, the lowest since 2013 and below the 80% winter target, with Germany just above 60%, as Dutch TTF November futures cleared EUR 100/MWh for the first time since December 2022; a 4 November forecast of an early polar-vortex disruption added cold-weather risk to a thin buffer. Third,
Beijing's export-licence calendar is now a near-term compliance date, not a theme: MOFCOM and the General Administration of Customs' Announcement No. 70 of 2025 suspended six lithium-battery and graphite-anode control measures only through
10 November 2026, and a 12 October 2026 notice brings a per-shipment licence requirement into force from 8 November. For the electrolyte and anode shelves, the licence window — not the spot quote — is the November variable.
Top Price Movers
1,3-Dichlorobenzene rose 40.22% to CNY 21,500/ton from CNY 15,333/ton — the cleanest confirmed up-print on Wednesday's board and one of only two large moves whose day, week and month all vote the same way. The weekly clock (+20.88%) and the monthly (+9.86%) sit underneath the daily jump rather than against it, which is the signature of a real re-mark rather than a thin-line quote artefact: the level has been building for a month and Wednesday is the step that confirms it, not a one-day pop that has to be given back. The economics of the level matter. This is a chlorinated aromatic intermediate sitting downstream of benzene and chlorine, used in agrochemical and dye synthesis; it trades on a small number of domestic producers, so a single plant's operating rate or a chlorine-cost pass-through re-prices the composite quickly, but the three-clock agreement is what separates this print from the 64 double-digit base events on the same sheet. The shelf around it leans the same way:
4-chlorobenzonitrile +17.33% to CNY 29,333 (weekly +5.05%, monthly +1.90%) and
1-bromopropane +9.79% to CNY 35,500 (weekly +11.29%, monthly +0.91%) are halogenated and C3-adjacent intermediates re-marking in the same direction, which is a cost-push read rather than a demand story isolated to one line. The caveat is the one the whole fine shelf carries today: a 40% day on a thin book is a level to benchmark against, not a level to build a quarter on. Treat this as a supplier-conversation trigger — confirm whether the increase is chlorine cost, operating rate or a contract re-quote — and check the weekly trend agrees before you treat the move as durable.
Rose 40.22% to CNY 21,500/ton, weekly +20.88%, monthly +9.86% — the day's cleanest confirmed re-mark, with all three clocks aligned. A cost-push read on the chlorinated-aromatic shelf, not a demand spike: benchmark the quote before you build a position on it.
1,4-Butanediol dimethacrylate fell 38.30% to CNY 29,000/ton from CNY 47,000/ton — the largest confirmed decline on Wednesday's board and the line that makes the acrylate shelf the session's clearest sourcing opportunity. The weekly clock (-33.96%) and the monthly (-20.45%) both vote with the day, so this is a continuation of a month-long concession rather than a one-day quote event: the difunctional methacrylate has been re-marking down through November and Wednesday is the largest single step. The economics of the level matter. BDDMA is a crosslinking diluent for UV-curable coatings, adhesives and 3D-printing resins, priced off the methacrylic acid and 1,4-butanediol chain; when the upstream C4 and acrylate complex softens, the specialty diluent gives back last, and it gives back in jumps because the line is thin and producer-quoted. That structure is exactly why the day (-38.30%) is larger than the month (-20.45%): the composite catches up in discrete re-quotes, not in a drift. The shelf around it confirms the direction rather than contradicting it —
trimethylolpropane propoxylate triacrylate -5.00% to CNY 19,000 and
sebacic acid -6.38% to CNY 27,900 (weekly -9.54%) are the same specialty-ester and plasticiser complex conceding at a smaller magnitude. For a buyer, this is the useful kind of decline: three clocks aligned, a month-long trend behind it, and no verified supply incident pushing it the other way. The discipline is unchanged — the line trades in jumps, so confirm the producer quote is actually executable at CNY 29,000/ton before treating it as a fill.
Fell 38.30% to CNY 29,000/ton, weekly -33.96%, monthly -20.45% — the acrylate shelf's largest confirmed give-back and a genuine sourcing window. Three clocks aligned with a month-long trend behind it; verify the quote is executable before you size the buy.
N,N-Dimethyloctadecylamine fell 37.14% to CNY 22,000/ton from CNY 35,000/ton — the second-largest confirmed decline and, with the acrylate in card two, the clearest evidence that Wednesday's fine shelf was a two-sided re-mark book rather than a broad sell-off. The weekly clock (-39.70%) is slightly larger than the day and the monthly (-19.13%) is smaller, which is the honest read: this line has been conceding for a month, Wednesday is one more step in a sequence, and the weekly is the best measure of its size. The economics of the level matter. This is a C18 tertiary amine used as an intermediate for quaternary ammonium surfactants, fabric softeners and corrosion inhibitors, priced off fatty amine and tallow-derived feedstock; it is a low-volume, producer-quoted line, so the composite moves in steps when a supplier re-quotes rather than drifting with a daily market. The neighbouring shelf reads the same way:
ethanol, 2,2'-iminobis-, N-C12-18-alkyl derivatives -7.69% to CNY 30,000 (weekly -7.50%) and
sulfanilic acid -12.96% to CNY 11,750 are the surfactant and amine-adjacent lines conceding at smaller magnitudes, while
1,3-dichlorobenzene +40.22% (card one) and
trimethyl phosphate +27.89% re-mark up at the same time. Two large down-prints and two large up-prints on one shelf, with the rest of the 2,358-line fine book frozen, is a re-quote day, not a demand shift: producers adjusting individual composite lines, not the market clearing at a new level. For procurement the read is practical — a -37% day with a -40% week is worth re-quoting your amine suppliers against, but it is one supplier's composite, so ask for the basis and the validity window rather than assuming the whole surfactant book has repriced.
Fell 37.14% to CNY 22,000/ton, weekly -39.70%, monthly -19.13% — the amine shelf's confirmed give-back alongside the acrylate in card two. Two-sided re-quote day, not a broad sell-off: re-quote suppliers, but ask for the basis before assuming the whole book moved.
Basic Chemicals
Basic Chemicals: 322 lines, 67 moved (21 up / 46 down), 22 genuine prints at 1% or more. The bulk shelf is the quietest part of Wednesday's library: 255 of 322 lines are frozen, and the two double-digit confirmed moves are both on secondary, thinly quoted grades rather than the high-volume acids, caustic and olefin lines.
| Product |
CAS |
Price |
Daily |
Weekly |
Monthly |
| Boron trichloride prices (base event) |
10294-34-5 |
13 CNY/kg |
-79.69% |
-35% |
-22% |
| Mineral oil prices (base event) |
8042-47-5 |
72,000 |
76.69% |
-3.28% |
-6.77% |
| Mesitylene prices (base event) |
108-67-8 |
38,000 |
72.73% |
24.24% |
24.24% |
| Cupric nitrate prices (base event) |
3251-23-8 |
21,000 |
-22.22% |
9.52% |
9.52% |
| Sulfonated kerosene prices |
– |
10,875 |
18.85% |
4.67% |
-0.92% |
| Aluminum metaphosphate prices (base event) |
13776-88-0 |
47,500 |
13.1% |
-3.86% |
-1.58% |
| Pyrrhotite prices (base event) |
– |
350 |
-12.5% |
-0.78% |
0.27% |
| No. 120 Solvent Naphtha prices (base event) |
– |
7,820 |
10.3% |
-0.03% |
1.19% |
| Heterogeneous-grade xylene prices |
– |
6,667 |
-6.1% |
-1.24% |
-1.04% |
| Lauryl methacrylate prices |
142-90-5 |
40,000 |
5.26% |
-1.67% |
-0.51% |
| Heptane prices |
142-82-5 |
17,000 |
4.29% |
1.02% |
1.29% |
| 4,4'-Oxydianiline prices |
101-80-4 |
95,000 |
3.83% |
-0.21% |
-0.1% |
| Caprolactam prices |
105-60-2 |
13,487 |
-3.68% |
-1.93% |
-2.41% |
| Instant-soluble sodium silicate prices |
– |
2,800 |
-3.45% |
-2.31% |
-1.39% |
| Potassium carbonate prices |
584-08-7 |
7,000 |
-3.45% |
-1.48% |
-2.65% |
| Iodine prices |
12190-71-5 |
608,500 |
-3.41% |
4.88% |
0.47% |
| Benzene prices |
71-43-2 |
9,303 |
-3.34% |
-5.87% |
-5.86% |
| Toluene prices |
108-88-3 |
8,433 |
-3.26% |
-1.87% |
-1.34% |
| Coke (petroleum), calcined prices |
64743-05-1 |
4,850 |
3.19% |
0% |
0% |
| Cyclohexanone prices |
108-94-1 |
10,900 |
-2.68% |
-1.39% |
0.56% |
| Bromacil lithium salt prices |
7726-95-6 |
44,100 |
2.56% |
1.74% |
4.5% |
| Phenol prices |
108-95-2 |
9,700 |
-2.51% |
-0.17% |
5.03% |
| Potassium hydroxide prices |
1310-58-3 |
6,540 |
-2.39% |
-0.79% |
-0.83% |
| Acetone prices |
67-64-1 |
9,013 |
-2.17% |
2.24% |
6.11% |
| Propylene oxide prices |
75-56-9 |
11,900 |
-1.92% |
3.11% |
6.74% |
| Sodium Sulfide 60% Yellow Flakes prices |
– |
2,700 |
1.89% |
0% |
-0.04% |
| Elastomer 210/220 prices |
– |
13,150 |
-1.87% |
4.85% |
5.49% |
| Sodium hydroxide prices |
1310-73-2 |
2,487 |
-1.82% |
-1.33% |
-1.71% |
| Tetrachloroethylene prices |
127-18-4 |
3,094 |
1.81% |
-1.58% |
-3.39% |
| Epichlorohydrin prices |
106-89-8 |
11,400 |
1.79% |
0.6% |
0.45% |
| Xylene prices |
1330-20-7 |
8,443 |
-1.63% |
-1.42% |
-0.06% |
| Allyl methacrylate prices |
96-05-9 |
34,500 |
1.47% |
0.1% |
0.13% |
| Polyester POY prices |
– |
9,290 |
-1.41% |
-0.05% |
-0.77% |
| Caustic Soda prices |
68988-74-9 |
568 |
-1.39% |
-4.15% |
-7.18% |
| Nickel sulfate prices |
7786-81-4 |
31,200 |
-1.37% |
-0.19% |
-0.6% |
| (-)-Securinine prices |
5610-40-2 |
3,750 |
-1.32% |
0% |
0.21% |
| N,N-Dimethylformamide prices |
68-12-2 |
5,320 |
-1.12% |
-1% |
-3.9% |
| PET prices |
– |
8,796 |
-1.06% |
-0.55% |
0.65% |
| Terephthalic acid prices |
100-21-0 |
6,972 |
-1.05% |
-2.68% |
-2.53% |
| Methanol prices |
67-56-1 |
3,875 |
-1.02% |
-1.03% |
-6.53% |
| Acetic acid prices |
64-19-7 |
4,307 |
-0.99% |
-2.07% |
-6.49% |
| Dibutyl phthalate-3,4,5,6-d4 prices |
93952-11-5 |
11,400 |
-0.87% |
3.15% |
5.56% |
| Formaldehyde prices |
50-00-0 |
1,780 |
-0.84% |
-0.99% |
-0.77% |
| Styrene prices |
100-42-5 |
10,914 |
-0.78% |
-2.65% |
0.77% |
| 1-Butanol prices |
71-36-3 |
8,800 |
-0.76% |
3.7% |
2.92% |
| Isooctanol prices |
26952-21-6 |
10,433 |
-0.64% |
2.63% |
9.61% |
| Aluminum fluoride prices |
7784-18-1 |
13,625 |
0.55% |
1.65% |
2.77% |
| Vinyl acetate prices |
108-05-4 |
7,150 |
-0.53% |
-1.38% |
-7.17% |
| Nickel prices |
7440-02-0 |
118,133 |
-0.52% |
-1.19% |
-1.78% |
| Cobalt prices |
7440-48-4 |
233,000 |
-0.51% |
3.48% |
-9.7% |
| Potassium carbonate granules prices |
– |
6,767 |
-0.49% |
-1.09% |
-1.68% |
| N-methyl-N-phenylguanidine prices |
12033-49-7 |
1,487 |
0.47% |
1.44% |
7.35% |
| Isobutyraldehyde prices |
78-84-2 |
7,767 |
-0.42% |
-2.88% |
-4.94% |
| Ethyl acetate prices |
141-78-6 |
7,040 |
-0.38% |
-0.34% |
0.61% |
| Ammonium dihydrogen phosphate prices |
7722-76-1 |
3,600 |
-0.36% |
-0.11% |
-1.8% |
| Polyester FDY prices |
– |
9,637 |
-0.34% |
0.02% |
-0.26% |
| Butyl acetate prices |
123-86-4 |
8,200 |
-0.3% |
1% |
2.63% |
| Cryolite prices |
15096-52-3 |
8,775 |
0.29% |
4.09% |
4.91% |
| Dioctyl phthalate prices |
117-81-7 |
11,359 |
-0.29% |
3.29% |
5.61% |
| Sulfur prices |
7704-34-9 |
5,274 |
0.23% |
-4.05% |
-20.54% |
| 1,3-Butadiene prices |
106-99-0 |
14,933 |
0.22% |
4.36% |
8.49% |
| Propylene prices |
115-07-1 |
11,494 |
-0.06% |
1.5% |
11.44% |
| Calcium borate prices |
13701-64-9 |
17,200 |
0% |
18.42% |
102.21% |
| Calcium sulfide prices |
20548-54-3 |
7,500 |
0% |
16.73% |
87.22% |
| Distilled water prices |
– |
900 |
0% |
14.21% |
68.54% |
| Liquid argon prices |
7440-37-1 |
1,850 |
0% |
13.29% |
104.42% |
| Acrylonitrile prices |
107-13-1 |
12,633 |
0% |
11.95% |
13.01% |
| Decahydronaphthalene prices |
91-17-8 |
26,500 |
0% |
11.81% |
2.86% |
| Benzyl benzoate prices |
120-51-4 |
14,750 |
0% |
-11.68% |
-4.28% |
| Diethylene glycol prices |
111-46-6 |
7,133 |
0% |
-10.84% |
4.05% |
| Isobutylene prices |
115-11-7 |
14,600 |
0% |
-10.65% |
7.83% |
| Manganese carbonate prices |
598-62-9 |
6,500 |
0% |
10.64% |
45.45% |
| Aluminum hydroxide prices |
21645-51-2 |
2,900 |
0% |
-9.11% |
-0.32% |
| Ethylstyrene prices |
28106-30-1 |
28,750 |
0% |
8.41% |
5.74% |
| Calcium chloride dihydrate prices |
10035-04-8 |
984 |
0% |
-8.13% |
-7.23% |
| Formic acid prices |
64-18-6 |
2,600 |
0% |
7.71% |
19.66% |
| Calcium aluminate powder prices |
– |
1,200 |
0% |
7.14% |
1.87% |
| Tetradecane prices |
629-59-4 |
18,000 |
0% |
-6.97% |
-2.42% |
| Chlorodifluoromethane prices |
75-45-6 |
18,667 |
0% |
-6.23% |
-13.26% |
| Hydrogen fluoride prices |
7664-39-3 |
17,383 |
0% |
5.99% |
4.49% |
| 1-Propanol prices |
71-23-8 |
8,200 |
0% |
5.82% |
-0.28% |
| Butylated Hydroxytoluene prices |
128-37-0 |
20,000 |
0% |
-4.76% |
-11.75% |
| Acrylic acid prices |
79-10-7 |
9,500 |
0% |
4.14% |
7.02% |
| Solvent naphtha prices |
64742-94-5 |
7,525 |
0% |
-3.81% |
-1.71% |
| Hydrogen peroxide prices |
7722-84-1 |
670 |
0% |
-3.74% |
-5.48% |
| Dichloromethane prices |
75-09-2 |
3,270 |
0% |
3.51% |
8.35% |
| Hydrochloric acid prices |
7647-01-0 |
178 |
0% |
-1.65% |
-4.26% |
| Sulfuric acid prices |
7664-93-9 |
1,515 |
0% |
-1.62% |
-5.94% |
| Borax prices |
1303-96-4 |
6,420 |
0% |
-1.23% |
-2.79% |
| Bisphenol A prices |
80-05-7 |
11,210 |
0% |
0.78% |
0.97% |
| Propylene glycol prices |
57-55-6 |
9,267 |
0% |
-0.64% |
-0.4% |
| Polystyrene prices |
9003-53-6 |
12,567 |
0% |
0.57% |
6.64% |
| 1,4-Butanediol prices |
110-63-4 |
10,375 |
0% |
0.36% |
0.83% |
| Chloroform prices |
67-66-3 |
2,633 |
0% |
0.34% |
4.03% |
| Styrene Butadiene Rubber prices |
9003-55-8 |
16,708 |
0% |
0.14% |
2.37% |
| Aniline prices |
62-53-3 |
16,600 |
0% |
0% |
4.4% |
| Cyclohexane prices |
110-82-7 |
7,500 |
0% |
0% |
3.11% |
| Propane prices |
74-98-6 |
6,150 |
0% |
0% |
-0.52% |
| Ethylene Oxide prices |
75-21-8 |
9,700 |
0% |
0% |
0% |
| Allyl chloride prices |
107-05-1 |
6,300 |
0% |
0% |
0% |
The one real basic-chemical bid is a kerosene derivative, not a bulk commodity.
Sulfonated kerosene +18.85% to CNY 10,875/ton (weekly +4.67%, monthly -0.92%) is the shelf's only confirmed double-digit up-print, and its monthly clock is still fractionally negative — a re-quote on a specialty extractant grade used in hydrometallurgical solvent extraction, not a signal from the fuel or aromatics complex.
Heterogeneous-grade xylene -6.10% to CNY 6,667/ton (weekly -1.24%, monthly -1.04%) is the corresponding down-print, small and flat across both longer clocks. Everything else on the bulk shelf is drift:
heptane +4.29% to CNY 17,000,
caprolactam -3.68% to CNY 13,487 and
instant-soluble sodium silicate -3.45% to CNY 2,800 all sit inside a 5% band with weekly and monthly clocks near zero. That is the correct read of a 322-line basic book on a day when the offshore barrel fell 8%: bulk domestic quotes simply do not re-price on a single offshore session.
The coal, acid and caustic anchors stayed at their marks. Sulphur, sulphuric acid, caustic soda, soda ash, hydrochloric acid, nitric acid, methanol, ethylene oxide, propylene, benzene, toluene, styrene and the chlor-alkali complex are all printed flat on the day, with movement only in their weekly or monthly clocks. Across the full library
124 frozen lines still carry a weekly drift of at least 5% and
27 frozen lines carry a monthly premium of at least 8% — the quiet risk in a 90.6%-frozen feed is not the 262 movers, it is the lines that have not re-quoted yet but whose week and month say they should. Those are the supplier conversations to schedule before the next full-library export, not the double-digit base events.
Base events dominate the basic headline numbers.
Mineral oil +76.69% to CNY 72,000/ton (weekly -3.28%) and
mesitylene +72.73% to CNY 38,000/ton (weekly +24.24%) are the two loudest basic lines, and neither is tradable: mineral oil's weekly clock votes the other way and the print is a restoration of a prior composite, while mesitylene's day is more than three times its week. Both are marked as base events in the table.
Boron trichloride -79.69% to CNY 13/kg is the same pattern on the downside. The filter is the discipline: a line whose daily change is not supported by a same-sign weekly clock, or whose price simply returns to a previously published level, is a quote artefact on a thin line, not a market move.
What the frozen shelf means for a buyer. With 255 of 322 basic lines unchanged, Wednesday offers very little genuine re-pricing power on bulk commodities. The practical action is to lock the flat quotes that sit against a rising weekly clock, and to treat the two confirmed thin-grade moves (sulfonated kerosene, heterogeneous-grade xylene) as supplier-specific re-quotes to verify rather than as a market-wide direction. The offshore crude break has not reached this shelf yet; if it is going to, the pass-through will show up first in the naphtha, aromatics and light-ends lines on the next full-library export.
Fine Chemicals
Fine Chemicals: 2,358 lines, 169 moved (69 up / 100 down); 56 genuine prints at 1% or more, and 71 double-digit daily changes of which only 18 survive confirmation. This is the session's real story: a large, mostly frozen specialty book in which a handful of producer composites were re-quoted hard in both directions at once.
| Product |
CAS |
Price |
Daily |
Weekly |
Monthly |
| Padimate prices (base event) |
21245-01-2 |
544,000 |
403.7% |
22.29% |
2.19% |
| 2,3-Dihydro-2,2-dimethyl-7-benzofuranol prices (base event) |
1563-38-8 |
52,500 |
180% |
15.55% |
7.26% |
| Methylcyclopentadiene dimer prices (base event) |
26472-00-4 |
21,750 |
155.88% |
25.6% |
0% |
| Lambda-cyhalothric acid prices (base event) |
72748-35-7 |
87,450 |
150.57% |
20.06% |
-8.42% |
| N-Phenylmaleimide prices (base event) |
941-69-5 |
80,500 |
123.61% |
22.06% |
1.35% |
| Ethanethiol prices (base event) |
75-08-1 |
33,000 |
107.55% |
7.06% |
4.04% |
| 5-Hydroxyisophthalic acid prices (base event) |
618-83-7 |
349,000 |
76.26% |
-40.27% |
-40.27% |
| 4-Aminothiophenol prices (base event) |
1193-02-8 |
600,000 |
71.43% |
14.81% |
0.96% |
| Methyl 2-(aminosulfonyl)benzoate prices (base event) |
57683-71-3 |
35,500 |
69.05% |
-13.61% |
-5.93% |
| 1,6-Hexanediol diacrylate prices (base event) |
13048-33-4 |
27,000 |
68.75% |
14.38% |
-1.82% |
| 2-Fluorotoluene prices (base event) |
95-52-3 |
30,000 |
66.67% |
36.07% |
22.89% |
| Tris(trimethylsilyl) phosphate prices (base event) |
10497-05-9 |
70,000 |
-66.67% |
-22.22% |
-10.26% |
| Ethyl diphenylphosphinite prices (base event) |
719-80-2 |
20,000 |
-61.9% |
14.94% |
6.52% |
| 2-Amino-4,6-dimethoxypyrimidine prices (base event) |
36315-01-2 |
50,000 |
-56.52% |
13.13% |
5.78% |
| Vinylmagnesium chloride prices (base event) |
3536-96-7 |
26,000 |
-53.15% |
20.81% |
3.27% |
| Polypropylene glycol diamine prices (base event) |
9046-10-0 |
14,000 |
-50.88% |
-16.96% |
-7.55% |
| Dibutyl phosphate prices (base event) |
107-66-4 |
23,000 |
-49.45% |
-16.48% |
-5.59% |
| N,N-Diethyl-m-toluamide prices (base event) |
134-62-3 |
28,900 |
45.96% |
-19% |
-2.85% |
| 2-tert-Butylcyclohexyl acetate prices (base event) |
88-41-5 |
10,000 |
-45.95% |
18.8% |
8.05% |
| White Oil No. 7 prices (base event) |
– |
39,600 |
-45% |
-15% |
-12.94% |
| Triethylammonium chloride prices (base event) |
554-68-7 |
18,750 |
44.23% |
-31.29% |
2.97% |
| Sodium pyroantimonate prices (base event) |
12507-68-5 |
110,000 |
40.31% |
-8.66% |
-0.69% |
| 1,3-Dichlorobenzene prices (base event) |
541-73-1 |
21,500 |
40.22% |
20.88% |
9.86% |
| 4-tert-Butylcyclohexyl acetate prices (base event) |
32210-23-4 |
11,000 |
-38.89% |
8.05% |
3.63% |
| 1,4-Butanediol dimethacrylate prices |
2082-81-7 |
29,000 |
-38.3% |
-33.96% |
-20.45% |
| 1,4-dibromobutane prices (base event) |
110-52-1 |
50,000 |
-37.5% |
0% |
0% |
| N,N-Dimethyloctadecylamine prices |
124-28-7 |
22,000 |
-37.14% |
-39.7% |
-19.13% |
| Benzyltrimethylammonium chloride prices (base event) |
56-93-9 |
22,500 |
36.36% |
-28.07% |
-8.89% |
| Resorcinol diglycidyl ether prices (base event) |
101-90-6 |
65,000 |
-35% |
11.81% |
0.78% |
| 1,4-Bis(methoxymethyl)benzene prices (base event) |
6770-38-3 |
87,500 |
34.62% |
8.11% |
0.55% |
| 2-Bromo-4-fluoroaniline prices (base event) |
1003-98-1 |
102,500 |
-33.87% |
17.07% |
6.19% |
| 3-Methyl-2-buten-1-ol prices (base event) |
556-82-1 |
67,500 |
-32.5% |
-2.69% |
-2.25% |
| Dichlorophenylphosphine prices (base event) |
644-97-3 |
25,750 |
32.05% |
-8.09% |
-3.71% |
| 2-Benzoylacetanilide prices (base event) |
959-66-0 |
15,000 |
30.43% |
0% |
10.15% |
| 4-Chlorobutanoic acid prices (base event) |
627-00-9 |
250,000 |
-28.57% |
-8.6% |
0% |
| Trimethyl phosphate prices (base event) |
512-56-1 |
31,333 |
27.89% |
15.45% |
5.02% |
| 1,2-Diformyloxyethane prices (base event) |
629-15-2 |
12,000 |
-27.27% |
-9.09% |
-2.91% |
| Tetrasodium iminodisuccinate prices (base event) |
144538-83-0 |
16,550 |
-26.77% |
-7.99% |
-5.84% |
| 2-amino-3,5-dibromobenzaldehyde prices (base event) |
50910-55-9 |
175,000 |
-26.32% |
8.33% |
1.43% |
| EP (epoxy resin) prices (base event) |
38891-59-7 |
53,750 |
25% |
-6.67% |
-4.27% |
| 3,4-Dichlorobenzotrifluoride prices (base event) |
328-84-7 |
18,000 |
-24.69% |
-8.23% |
-2.62% |
| Cyclopentyl methyl ether prices (base event) |
5614-37-9 |
37,000 |
-22.92% |
5.12% |
1.12% |
| 2,4-Dichlorotoluene prices (base event) |
95-73-8 |
6,600 |
-20.48% |
-6.83% |
-2.85% |
| 5-Amino-3-cyano-1-(2,6-dichloro-4-trifluoromethylphenyl)pyrazole prices |
120068-79-3 |
63,500 |
-19.62% |
-13.79% |
-7.27% |
| Melamine cyanurate prices |
37640-57-6 |
10,150 |
19.41% |
4.8% |
0.48% |
| Nsc7964 prices (base event) |
25038-45-3 |
4,450 |
-19.09% |
11.96% |
3.82% |
| 2,2,2-Trifluoroethylamine hydrochloride prices (base event) |
373-88-6 |
325,000 |
-18.75% |
14.29% |
5.14% |
| Sodium trifluoromethanesulfinate prices (base event) |
2926-29-6 |
325,000 |
-18.75% |
7.69% |
3.23% |
| 1,3-Dioxan-5-ol prices (base event) |
4740-78-7 |
24,000 |
-18.64% |
5.6% |
0.39% |
| 2-Allyloxyethanol prices |
111-45-5 |
45,000 |
-18.18% |
-6.06% |
-2.52% |
| Disodium 1,5-naphthalenedisulfonate prices (base event) |
1655-29-4 |
45,000 |
-18.18% |
5.44% |
0.38% |
| Tetrabutylammonium hydroxide prices (base event) |
2052-49-5 |
29,500 |
18% |
-5.08% |
-3.24% |
| 1-(2-Hydroxyethyl)piperazine prices (base event) |
103-76-4 |
51,500 |
-17.82% |
-1.6% |
-1.97% |
| Tetrabromobisphenol A prices |
79-94-7 |
33,400 |
-17.53% |
-26.14% |
5.4% |
| 4-Chlorobenzonitrile prices (base event) |
623-03-0 |
29,333 |
17.33% |
5.05% |
1.9% |
| Xylitol prices |
87-99-0 |
15,000 |
-16.67% |
-5.56% |
-4.17% |
| Calcium thioglycolate prices (base event) |
814-71-1 |
110 CNY/kg |
-15.38% |
-4.1% |
0% |
| Cashew, nutshell liq., glycidyl ethers prices |
171263-25-5 |
14,000 |
-13.85% |
-2.79% |
-3.79% |
| 1,3-Cyclohexanebis(methylamine) prices |
2579-20-6 |
59,750 |
13.81% |
3.49% |
0% |
| Solketal prices |
100-79-8 |
25,000 |
-13.79% |
-2.47% |
-3.77% |
| Pyromellitic acid prices |
89-05-4 |
23,000 |
-13.21% |
-3.72% |
-5.12% |
| Methoxyammonium chloride prices |
593-56-6 |
85,900 |
-13.17% |
-22.41% |
-6.27% |
| Sulfanilic acid prices |
121-57-3 |
11,750 |
-12.96% |
-0.94% |
-0.79% |
| (-)-Camphorsulfonic acid prices |
35963-20-3 |
178,000 |
-12.75% |
-12.23% |
-6.91% |
| Phosphoric acid tris(2-chloro-1-methylethyl) ester prices (base event) |
13674-84-5 |
17,500 |
-12.5% |
-4.94% |
-2.31% |
| Ethylene glycol diglycidyl ether prices (base event) |
2224-15-9 |
23,000 |
-12.38% |
3.57% |
0.25% |
| Butyric Acid prices |
107-92-6 |
10,000 |
-11.11% |
-23.14% |
-4.66% |
| Hydrazine hydrate prices |
79785-97-0 |
12,000 |
-11.11% |
-9.61% |
-6.98% |
| 7,12-Dimethylbenz[a]anthracene prices |
57-97-6 |
20 CNY/kg |
11.11% |
5.56% |
5.56% |
| Diphenyl phosphite prices (base event) |
4712-55-4 |
27,500 |
10% |
-3.03% |
1.74% |
| 3-Nitrobenzoic acid prices (base event) |
121-92-6 |
39,460 |
8.63% |
30.98% |
11.89% |
| 1,8-Diazabicyclo[5.4.0]undec-7-ene prices |
6674-22-2 |
89,500 |
6.55% |
-2.05% |
-0.91% |
| Sebacic acid prices |
111-20-6 |
27,900 |
-6.38% |
-9.54% |
-2.74% |
| Allyl glycidyl ether prices |
106-92-3 |
28,000 |
5.66% |
-1.46% |
-0.11% |
| Tetrahydrofuran prices |
24979-97-3 |
19,000 |
-2.56% |
1.25% |
-2.5% |
| Diisopropanolamine prices |
110-97-4 |
17,167 |
-0.48% |
1.63% |
1.03% |
| 2,4,6-trimethylbenzoyl chloride prices |
938-18-1 |
38,000 |
0% |
51.14% |
15.66% |
| Lithium sulfate prices |
10377-48-7 |
81,000 |
0% |
26.56% |
7.9% |
| Potassium sorbate prices |
24634-61-5 |
15,100 |
0% |
-24.5% |
-10.6% |
| Triethylenediamine prices |
280-57-9 |
17,525 |
0% |
24.48% |
-0.16% |
| Diethanolisopropanolamine prices |
6712-98-7 |
8,938 |
0% |
-23.55% |
-15.96% |
| Ammonium acetate prices |
631-61-8 |
4,550 |
0% |
21.08% |
-0.85% |
| P-Toluidine prices |
106-49-0 |
13,100 |
0% |
-18.13% |
-6.78% |
| 2-Ethoxyethyl ether prices |
112-36-7 |
26,360 |
0% |
-12.11% |
-0.45% |
| Trimethyl borate prices |
121-43-7 |
13,250 |
0% |
11.07% |
5.66% |
| 4-Methoxyphenol prices |
150-76-5 |
58,450 |
0% |
-10.5% |
-3.01% |
| 3-Chloro-1,2-propanediol prices |
96-24-2 |
22,475 |
0% |
-10.44% |
1.72% |
| 1,2-hexanediol prices |
6920-22-5 |
75,667 |
0% |
9.42% |
3.17% |
| 4-Aminophenol prices |
123-30-8 |
17,950 |
0% |
7.44% |
2.67% |
| Ammonium sulfamate prices |
7773-06-0 |
7,900 |
0% |
-6.4% |
-2.12% |
| Pivalic acid prices |
75-98-9 |
18,633 |
0% |
-5.56% |
-4.88% |
| M-Toluidine prices |
108-44-1 |
11,000 |
0% |
-4.93% |
-9.87% |
| Boron trifluoride tetrahydrofuran prices |
70157-12-9 |
51,500 |
0% |
4.89% |
1.63% |
| Cysteamine hydrochloride prices |
156-57-0 |
46,000 |
0% |
-4.67% |
0.73% |
| Aminoacetonitrile hydrochloride prices |
6011-14-9 |
49,350 |
0% |
-3.82% |
-2.33% |
| Acrylamide prices |
79-06-1 |
11,233 |
0% |
3.28% |
7.17% |
| Hypophosphorous acid prices |
6303-21-5 |
22,025 |
0% |
-2.85% |
-4.12% |
| Verdyl acetate prices |
5413-60-5 |
19,000 |
0% |
-1.66% |
-0.2% |
| Tetradecyl benzoate prices |
70682-72-3 |
23,500 |
0% |
1.08% |
1.38% |
| Castor oil prices |
8001-79-4 |
16,000 |
0% |
0.24% |
6.92% |
Two up, two down, all three clocks aligned. The four largest prints that survive confirmation are
1,3-dichlorobenzene +40.22% to CNY 21,500 (weekly +20.88%, monthly +9.86%),
trimethyl phosphate +27.89% to CNY 31,333 (weekly +15.45%, monthly +5.02%),
1,4-butanediol dimethacrylate -38.30% to CNY 29,000 (weekly -33.96%, monthly -20.45%) and
N,N-dimethyloctadecylamine -37.14% to CNY 22,000 (weekly -39.70%, monthly -19.13%). The symmetry is the point: a solvent-intermediate and a phosphate ester re-marked up while an acrylate diluent and a fatty amine re-marked down, on the same day, inside the same 2,358-line book. A demand shock does not do that. A producer re-quote cycle does — thin, individually quoted specialty lines whose composites are refreshed in batches, which is why the sizes are large and the surrounding shelf is unchanged.
The second tier is where the trend is cleanest.
5-amino-3-cyano-1-(2,6-dichloro-4-trifluoromethylphenyl)pyrazole -19.62% to CNY 63,500 (weekly -13.79%, monthly -7.27%),
2-allyloxyethanol -18.18% to CNY 45,000 (weekly -6.06%),
tetrabromobisphenol A -17.53% to CNY 33,400 (weekly -26.14%) and
xylitol -16.67% to CNY 15,000 are all same-sign, multi-clock declines on agrochemical, glycol-ether, brominated-flame-retardant and polyol lines. On the other side
melamine cyanurate +19.41% to CNY 10,150 (weekly +4.80%),
1,3-cyclohexanebis(methylamine) +13.81% to CNY 59,750 and
4-chlorobenzonitrile +17.33% to CNY 29,333 are the smaller confirmed up-prints. Note the magnitude relationship: on almost every one of these the daily change runs ahead of the weekly, which is the honest caveat for the whole fine shelf — these are step re-quotes, not continuous markets, and the weekly clock is the better measure of the real move.
The rejection ledger is the day's most useful number. Of 84 double-digit daily changes across the library, 64 fail confirmation and 20 survive.
Padimate +403.70% to CNY 544,000,
2,3-dihydro-2,2-dimethyl-7-benzofuranol +180.00% to CNY 52,500,
methylcyclopentadiene dimer +155.88% to CNY 21,750,
lambda-cyhalothric acid +150.57% to CNY 87,450,
N-phenylmaleimide +123.61% to CNY 80,500 and
5-hydroxyisophthalic acid +76.26% back to CNY 349,000 are all either sign/clock mismatches or restorations of the 11/03 quote — the PTFE-chain acid literally reverses Tuesday's 43.27% give-back. Nine lines snap back exactly to the 11/02 published level. Every one is labelled
(base event) in the tables. Verify the quote before you trust the move: on a thin-book day the headline number is almost never the tradable one.
Frozen drift, full-library edition. Across all 2,793 lines, 124 frozen quotes still carry a weekly drift of at least 5% and 27 carry a monthly premium of at least 8% with a flat week. These are the lines most likely to re-quote on the next export, and on a day when 90.6% of the book is unchanged they matter more than the movers. For a procurement desk the discipline is straightforward: filter first by same-sign day/week/month agreement, second by whether the price is new rather than a restoration or a snapback, and only then by magnitude. Applied to Wednesday that filter reduces 262 movers to 86 genuine prints at 1% or more — a far more useful watchlist than the raw leaderboard.
Energy, Rubber, Plastics and Other
Energy, Rubber, Plastics and Other: 113 lines, 26 moved (8 up / 18 down). The energy shelf is where the domestic quote and the offshore paper tape disagree most sharply on Wednesday.
| Product |
CAS |
Price |
Daily |
Weekly |
Monthly |
| Poly(n-butyl vinyl ether) prices (base event) |
92680-80-3 |
26,300 |
80.14% |
9.54% |
1.03% |
| Poly(ethyl vinyl ether) prices (base event) |
25104-37-4 |
42,900 |
60.07% |
7.7% |
0.85% |
| Foundry sand prices (base event) |
– |
1,750 |
-23.08% |
-1.18% |
0.45% |
| Dioctyl decanedioate prices |
2432-87-3 |
14,000 |
-11.11% |
-4.76% |
-3.7% |
| Anthracite prices (base event) |
8029-10-5 |
1,750 |
11.11% |
-0.31% |
-0.6% |
| Kerosene prices |
– |
9,900 |
7.03% |
5.66% |
10.29% |
| Hexadecane prices |
544-76-3 |
17,500 |
-2.78% |
-6.46% |
-2.5% |
| PVC Resin SG5 prices |
– |
5,020 |
-2.71% |
-1.72% |
4.43% |
| PVC prices |
– |
5,020 |
-2.52% |
0.25% |
5.21% |
| Silica prices |
10279-57-9 |
6,233 |
-2.1% |
-0.71% |
-0.75% |
| Liquefied petroleum ges prices |
68476-85-7 |
7,920 |
-1.55% |
1.23% |
0.15% |
| Natural Rubber prices |
9006-04-6 |
18,550 |
-1.37% |
-1.09% |
-2.66% |
| Coke (coal) prices |
65996-77-2 |
2,100 |
-1.18% |
-0.38% |
-4.29% |
| Asphalt prices |
8052-42-4 |
6,100 |
-1.05% |
-1.91% |
0.03% |
| Brent Crude Oil prices |
– |
104 USD/bbl |
-0.95% |
-4.46% |
0.93% |
| Polyvinyl chloride prices |
93050-82-9 |
6,400 |
0.79% |
1.49% |
4.48% |
| ABS prices |
– |
12,717 |
-0.78% |
-0.22% |
6.39% |
| LLDPE prices |
– |
10,408 |
0.4% |
1.75% |
5.7% |
| Gasoline prices |
– |
10,250 |
-0.34% |
1.03% |
1.72% |
| Liquefied Natural Gas prices |
– |
7,416 |
-0.22% |
-0.31% |
12.98% |
| Naphtha (petroleum), light alkylate prices |
64741-66-8 |
8,783 |
-0.19% |
-9.03% |
-1.19% |
| Poly(vinyl methyl ether) prices |
9003-09-2 |
105,000 |
0% |
78.53% |
25.57% |
| Diisononyl phthalate prices |
68515-48-0 |
13,267 |
0% |
-11.75% |
1.34% |
| 2D resin prices |
– |
7,500 |
0% |
11.11% |
48.13% |
| Lithium sulfide prices |
12136-58-2 |
50 CNY/kg |
0% |
11.11% |
21.95% |
| Octadecane prices |
593-45-3 |
18,000 |
0% |
-7.44% |
-2.32% |
| Heptadecane prices |
629-78-7 |
18,000 |
0% |
-6.37% |
-1.69% |
| Diisononyl phthalate prices |
28553-12-0 |
10,700 |
0% |
5.2% |
7.51% |
| WTI Crude Oil prices |
– |
96 USD/bbl |
0% |
-2.94% |
4.17% |
| PA46 prices |
– |
87,800 |
0% |
1.87% |
1.87% |
| Coking coal prices |
– |
2,199 |
0% |
-1.7% |
-1.69% |
| Lithium Iron Phosphate Carbon Coated prices |
15365-14-7 |
46,667 |
0% |
-1.61% |
-6.45% |
| 2 Fuel Oil prices |
– |
7,988 |
0% |
1.31% |
3.52% |
| Baiyun Sand prices |
– |
450 |
0% |
0% |
80% |
The barrel: two tapes, one day, an 8% gap. Offshore, Xinhua reported WTI December at
USD 88.12/bbl (-8.29%) and Brent January at
USD 94.62/bbl (-8.67%) on the 4th, the market pricing a faster end to the Iran conflict after the US midterms; Vortexa's 17.1m bpd October Hormuz throughput and the EIA's fifth straight crude-stock draw were the physical footnotes. On the tracked sheet,
WTI is unchanged at USD 96/bbl (weekly -2.94%, monthly +4.17%) and
Brent eases only -0.95% to USD 104/bbl (weekly -4.46%). That is a quote lag, not a contradiction: the domestic composite has not yet absorbed the offshore settlement, and the -2.94% weekly clock says it has been drifting down slowly rather than gapping. The one confirmed energy print goes the other way —
kerosene +7.03% to CNY 9,900/ton (weekly +5.66%, monthly +10.29%) is a three-clock-aligned gain, consistent with a distillate crack supported by the EIA's 99.26m bbl distillate inventory, the lowest since May 2003.
LNG -0.22% to CNY 7,416,
gasoline -0.34% to CNY 10,250 and
2 Fuel Oil flat at CNY 7,988 round out a domestic book that has simply not moved with the paper.
Plastics, rubber and the two policy shelves.
Dioctyl decanedioate -11.11% to CNY 14,000/ton (weekly -4.76%, monthly -3.70%) is the only confirmed plastics print, a specialty sebacate plasticiser conceding with its own flat longer clocks; the vinyl-ether lines that print +80.14% and +60.07% are base events and are labelled as such. Rubber's two moved lines are both small declines. The policy leg worth watching is China's export-licence calendar: Announcement No. 70 of 2025 suspends six lithium-battery and graphite-anode control measures only through
10 November 2026, and the 12 October 2026 notice brings per-shipment licensing into force from 8 November. On Wednesday's sheet the electrolyte book is frozen — lithium iron phosphate carbon-coated at CNY 46,667/ton, lithium difluoro(oxalato)borate at CNY 160,000/ton, lithium bis(oxalato)borate +0.06% to CNY 851,000/ton — which is exactly the risk: the quote is quiet while the compliance window closes. Buyers of LFP cathode, graphite anode and electrolyte salts should be confirming licence status and delivery schedules now, not waiting for the price to move.
Wednesday's closing read: a thin book, a loud false leaderboard, and a barrel the domestic sheet has not caught. Of 2,793 tracked lines, 262 moved and 2,531 stayed frozen; of 84 double-digit changes, only 20 are genuine. The four prints worth a position conversation are the three-clock-aligned re-marks — 1,3-dichlorobenzene +40.22%, trimethyl phosphate +27.89%, 1,4-butanediol dimethacrylate -38.30% and N,N-dimethyloctadecylamine -37.14% — and the sourcing window is on the two down-prints, where the week and the month agree with the day. Everything at +100% or below -50% is a base event: a restoration, a snapback or a sign/clock mismatch on a thin producer quote. Verify the quote before you trust the move.
For the contract book: the offshore barrel's 8.29% break (WTI December USD 88.12, Brent January USD 94.62) has not reached the Guidechem tracked sheet, where WTI is still frozen at USD 96. That gap is a timing question, not a directional one — watch the naphtha, light-ends and aromatics lines on the next full-library export for the pass-through. Europe's gas remains the un-priced cost leg (IEA: EU storage about 75%, TTF above EUR 100/MWh for the first time since December 2022), and Beijing's 8 November licensing start and 10 November suspension expiry are compliance dates that arrive before the electrolyte shelf has re-quoted.
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