Surfactants and Wool

Their prices have moved together.

Surfactants (chemical) and Wool (commodity): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Price link: processing input

Cost and price · Weak · Both ways

Raw wool is greasy and must be scoured with detergents before spinning, so surfactants are a processing cost. They do not drive the wool price: monthly moves correlate at 0.03 and yearly moves at 0.25.

• 0.03 monthly change correlation
• 0.25 12-month change correlation
• 0.42 fitted elasticity

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