Coconut oil and Fatty acids

Coconut oil is a raw material for fatty acids; their prices have moved together.

Coconut oil (commodity) and Fatty acids (chemical): 2 relationships.

How they are linked

1. Feedstock

Physical flow · Direct · Coconut oil → Fatty acids

Fatty acids is made from coconut oil: it is one of the raw materials its production routes start from.

2. Price link: feedstock cost

Cost and price · Weak · Both ways

Coconut oil supplies the lauric (C12) cuts used in soaps and cosmetics, so a poor copra harvest raises those grades. The link shows weakly in the US index, with yearly moves correlating at 0.28, since the index blends many cuts and feedstocks.

• 0.05 monthly change correlation
• 0.28 12-month change correlation
• 0.51 fitted elasticity

Built from the site data on production routes, energy flows, industry value chains, input-output tables and prices.