20 Dec 2017 | 07:01 UTC — Houston

SUBSCRIBER NOTE: Americas petrochemicals holiday MOC, publishing schedule

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S&P Global Platts will end the Platts Market on Close assessment process one hour early on Friday, December 22, at 1:30 pm EST (1830 GMT) for most petrochemical assessments. This is in line with the NYMEX holiday settlement schedule.

The assessments for US and Latin benzene, US styrene, US cumene and US ethylene markets will come forward one hour to 3 pm EST on December 22.

Platts will not publish any Americas petrochemical assessments on Christmas Day, Monday, December 25, 2017.

Platts will resume publishing daily Americas petrochemical assessments on Tuesday, December 26, 2017.

Americas petrochemical assessments will be published as normal on Friday, December 29, with a 2:30 pm EST close, following the NYMEX holiday schedule.

Platts will not publish any Americas petrochemical assessments on Monday, January 1, 2018.

Weekly assessments and weekly publications, including Solventswire, Polymerscan, Polymerscan Latin America Edition, Olefinscan and Europe and Americas Petrochemicalscan will resume publication beginning January 2, 2018.

Platts' holiday schedule is available at http://www.platts.com/holiday. For any questions or comments, please email pricegroup@spglobal.com.