Chlorine and Vinyl chloride monomer

Their prices have moved together.

Chlorine (chemical) and Vinyl chloride monomer (chemical): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Price link: derived product

Cost and price · Strong · Both ways

Chlorine reacts with ethylene to make vinyl chloride, the building block of PVC. The VCM proxy is a broad organics index; monthly moves correlate at 0.20 and yearly moves at 0.63.

• 0.20 monthly change correlation
• 0.63 12-month change correlation
• 1.11 fitted elasticity

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