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Combustion road vehicles and Styrene-butadiene rubber

Their prices have moved together.

Combustion road vehicles (energy) and Styrene-butadiene rubber (chemical): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Price link: demand driver

Cost and price · Weak · Both ways

Vehicle output and tyre replacement drive most SBR demand. The vehicle price proxy does not move with the rubber index, 0.03 monthly, because car prices follow model cycles, not rubber costs.

  • 0.03 monthly change correlation
  • 0.05 12-month change correlation
  • 0.87 fitted elasticity

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