Ethylene and Fatty alcohols

Their prices have moved together.

Ethylene (chemical) and Fatty alcohols (chemical): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Price link: substitute route

Cost and price · Moderate · Both ways

Part of supply is synthetic, built from ethylene by the Ziegler or oxo routes, so a wide gap between lauric oil and ethylene shifts buyers between them. The link is loose in the data: monthly moves correlate at 0.22 and yearly moves at 0.57.

• 0.22 monthly change correlation
• 0.57 12-month change correlation
• 0.47 fitted elasticity

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