20 May 2024 | 09:39 UTC

Platts proposes changes to publishing schedule for India/South Asia chemical assessments

Platts, part of S&P Global Commodity Insights, proposes to publish its India/South Asia chemical assessments in line with the India publishing schedule, beginning July 1, 2024.

These assessments currently follow the Singapore holiday publishing schedule.

Under the proposal, daily India/South Asia chemical assessments would not be published during the India public holidays.

Weekly assessments falling on Indian public holidays would be published one day in advance.

For example, for 2024, weekly assessments for Aug. 15, Oct. 2, Oct. 31 and Nov. 15 would be published one day in advance on Aug. 14, Oct.1, Oct. 29 and Nov. 14, respectively.

A full list of the publishing schedule for 2024 would be as below:

India Holiday Dates Published Day Prior Affected Publications Change from July 2024
Independence Day Aug. 15, Thursday Yes Solventswire, Asia Petrochemicalscan Yes, Weekly assessments published day prior
Mahatma Gandhi Jayanti Oct. 2, Wednesday Yes Polymerscan, Asia Petrochemicalscan Yes, Weekly assessments published day prior
Diwali Oct 31, Thursday NA NA No Change
Guru Nanak Jayanti Nov. 15, Friday Yes Solventswire, Asia Petrochemicalscan Yes, Weekly assessments published day prior
Christmas Dec. 25, Wednesday NA NA No Change

The full list of affected assessments and their codes are available here:Assessments affected by introduction of India publishing schedule.

These assessments appear in Polymerscan, Solventswire, and Asia Petrochemical scan.

The assessments' timestamp would remain unchanged at 4:30 pm SGT or 2 pm IST.

As part of this change, Platts would start publishing standalone commentaries and rationales for its India/South Asia price assessments to bring deeper insights into these markets.

For full details of Platts publishing schedule, refer to the Pricing Holiday Schedule.

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