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Home of Outside The Box!
Updated:
November 24, 2006
Each month our online market report, Outside The Box!, provides accurate, timely, and easy-to-understand market
forecasts and analyses for executives in the plastics industry.
In this
month's issue…
 | Consumers continue to spend, businesses continue to hire and
invest, and the U.S. economy continues to expand at a moderate, but
sustainable rate. So what does that mean for the plastics industry
during the rest of 2005 and into 2006? Check
out our analysis of the state of the economy, including our forecasts
for plastics products, the major plastics end-markets, and the U.S.
macro-economic indicators. |
Click to here
to jump to our Economic
Overview section.
| Attention:
Processors and machinery suppliers. Just when in looked like energy and resins
costs would head downward, we got hit by Katrina and Rita.
Yet despite these natural disasters, a look at the cyclical charts is
still the best way to begin planning for business conditions next
year. |
Subscribers, click here
for our Plastics Markets Indicators section with the latest forecasts and analyses.
| Thanks in part to an active hurricane season, prices for
resins will remain a high levels in the near-term. But what do the
market's cyclical indicators suggest for next year? The balance between the supply and demand of plastics resins
has fluctuated rapidly in recent months, and petroleum
and natural gas prices
remain extremely volatile. |
Subscribers, click here
for our Commodity Resins Prices section with an update on resins supply and demand.
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