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Copper and Organic pigments

Their prices have moved together.

Copper (commodity) and Organic pigments (chemical): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Price link: phthalocyanine metal

Cost and price · Weak · Both ways

Copper phthalocyanine, the most important blue and green pigment, has a copper atom at its centre. Copper is a small part of its cost, so monthly moves correlate at only 0.02 and yearly moves at -0.13.

  • 0.02 monthly change correlation
  • -0.13 12-month change correlation
  • 0.33 fitted elasticity

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