Sao Paulo 20:19 - Buenos Aires 20:19 - Mexico City 16:19
 
 
Stock Market
 1/5/2009
5:30 PM
IBOV
  
41519 
0%

 
5:30 PM
Merval
  
1152 
0%

 
5:30 PM
IPC
  
23239 
0%

 
 

Dated Brent (06:23 EST) $49.85 +4.16%                       WTI Cushing (09:00 EST) $48.81 +5.33%                       Nymex Henry Hub (05:53 EST) $6.19 +1.91%                       



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Tuesday, January 06, 2009 DOW TO TAKE ACTION AGAINST KUWAIT ON HALTED VENTURE - Dow Chemical Co., the largest U.S. chemical maker, plans to pursue legal options against Kuwait for canceling a joint venture agreement and will seek a new partner to invest in its basic-plastics business. full story
Monday, January 05, 2009 BRASKEM WITHDRAWS FROM PET BUSINESS - Braskem, the leading company in the thermoplastic resins industry in Latin America and third-largest resin producer in the Americas, announces it will deactivate its PET unit by the end of 2008. full story
Monday, January 05, 2009 ASIA: JAPAN MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL SHUTS NAPHTHA CRACKER - Japan´s largest petrochemical firm Mitsubishi Chemical Corp shut a 450,000 tonnes per year (tpy) naphtha cracker in Mizushima in end-December due to some "trouble" at the facility, a company official said on Monday. full story

 

  
 
 
 
Top-10 mentioned companies in the QuiMax Monitor in the last 12 months
1
Dow
9.2%
2
Basf
5.7%
3
Braskem
3.5%
4
Petrobras
3.0%
5
DuPont
2.8%