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ICIS Chemical Business Welcome to the ICIS Chemical Business weekly newsletter, bringing you all the analysis and insight you need to keep you ahead of the game in the competitive and dynamic chemical industry! This week we bring you our special issue on Nutrition & Health. What are the hottest nutraceuticals and what are they doing in your drinks? Plus, the omega-3 fatty acid craze continues in full force. And we bring you a special on the 20-year anniversary of the falloff the Berlin Wall and the beginning of chemical integration in Germany.
Stories from ICIS Chemical Business
Nutraceuticals find a niche in beauty market
Omega-3 fatty acid use is growing rapidly
Cognis to grow Nutrition & Health
Nutritional supplement regulations worry European industry
Debate over genetic modification continues to rage
Global chemical producers look to get a piece of the growing photovoltaic market
History of German chemical industry since the Berlin Wall fell
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ICIS news: Editors' Top Picks
US PE exports to China show signs of slowing down - traders
Big Oil has good chance at making ethanol profitable - analyst
Wacker Chemie Q3 profit falls 79%; reverses Q2 loss
SABIC-Sinopec Tianjin project partly fills China petchems demand
Polymers surge as US PE export window reopens - Lyondell
Iran's PP, PE exports to Pakistan to double in 2009
 
ICIS news: Most Popular Picks
New US law bars chems from using security to impede probes
US will need Brazil ethanol to meet biofuels goal - analyst
India April-Sept PP imports triple; sustainability in doubt
BASF predicts slow, uneven recovery as Q3 net profit falls 69%
China's October PMI rises to 55.2%, expansion accelerates
US October ethylene settles at 2.75 cent/lb increase

IPEX
IPEX November 2009
November ICIS IPEX petrochemical price index down 2.1%

HOUSTON (ICIS news)--The ICIS Petrochemical Index (IPEX) fell to 239.50 in November, down 5.15 points from the month before, as dramatic price drops in the US led to the index's second consecutive decrease in 2009.

The index fell by 2.1% from 244.65 in October, spurred mainly by large declines in US propylene and polypropylene and a slashing of paraxylene (PX) values in all regions.

The only chemical to see significant gains in all regions was benzene, which rose by 9.6% in the US and had similar gains in Europe and Asia.

Prices have now fallen two consecutive months. That was the first time since chemical prices started a steady rise in March 2009.

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