Platts to suspend ARA benzene forwards on PGA

Effective September 1, 2010, Platts will discontinue Page 619 (PPE619) from Platts Global Alert's European Forward Curve add-on service, as this is a duplicate of the benzene physical forward prices found on page 60 (PCA060) of Platts Petrochemical Alert.

The associated European oil derivatives market data codes found under the DR category are mislabeled as "swaps" when they are, in fact, physical forwards.

The European physical forwards are found under the AE category. The AE codes are correctly labeled.

The codes in the DR category will be renamed as physical forwards and discontinued:

Current benzene category (discontinued) Benzene European physical forwards DAIBH00 Benzene Swaps CIF ARA 01-Mo AAIBH00 Benzene Phy Fwd CIF ARA M1 DAIBJ00 Benzene Swaps CIF ARA 02-Mo AAIBJ00 Benzene Phy Fwd CIF ARA M2 DAIBL00 Benzene Swaps CIF ARA 03-Mo AAIBL00 Benzene Phy Fwd CIF ARA M3 DAIBN00 Benzene Swaps CIF ARA 01-Qr AAIBN00 Benzene Phy Fwd CIF ARA Q1 DAIBP00 Benzene Swaps CIF ARA 02-Qr AAIBP00 Benzene Phy Fwd CIF ARA Q2

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