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Electronic specialty gases and Lighting and displays

Their prices have moved together.

Electronic specialty gases (chemical) and Lighting and displays (energy): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Price link: chip making

Cost and price · Moderate · Both ways

LED and display factories use speciality gases to grow and etch semiconductor layers. The proxy for these gases shows yearly moves correlating at 0.44 with the lighting index, a moderate link that mostly reflects shared US price trends, since gases are a small cost in a fixture.

  • 0.09 monthly change correlation
  • 0.44 12-month change correlation
  • 0.37 fitted elasticity

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