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Ethylene and Styrene

Their prices have moved together.

Ethylene (chemical) and Styrene (chemical): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Price link: feedstock

Cost and price · Strong · Both ways

Ethylene is the second building block, reacted with benzene to make ethylbenzene. It shares the petrochemical proxy with benzene, so the measured figures are the same as for benzene and cannot separate the two inputs.

  • 0.50 monthly change correlation
  • 0.73 12-month change correlation
  • 0.10 fitted elasticity

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