Data monitoring shows that China’s natural rubber market continued to fluctuate during the week (22-28), and the increase range has expanded near the weekend. The price of China’s domestic standard 1 spot rubber was quoted at 14240 yuan / ton in the East China market on the 22nd (Monday), and 13890 yuan / ton on the 28th (Sunday), with a weekly decrease of 2.46%; The highest price of this week is 14360 yuan / ton on Thursday, and the lowest price is 13890 yuan / ton on the weekend. The maximum amplitude is the decline of 3.27% in that week.
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The factors affecting the market this week are:
1. Macro: since November, crude oil prices have fallen sharply. WTI crude oil fell by 18.45% and Brent crude oil fell by 14.49%; The crude oil analyst of business society believes that in the short term, the impact of the new virus will continue to ferment, the epidemic in Europe will become more and more intense, and the oil price will be in a short atmosphere. However, the oversold on Friday also basically digested the bad expectations, and it is unlikely that the oil price will continue to fall sharply. At present, the market focus is mainly on the OPEC + meeting to be held next week. Overall, oil prices may fluctuate weakly in the near future, and the possibility of continued bottoming cannot be ruled out.
2. Supply side: Southeast Asia is affected by bad weather and frequent rainfall, which affects the local rubber cutting and raw rubber supply. For example, Thai media reported on November 26 that Thailand continues to issue a flood warning in the South; Due to the strong northeast monsoon, water vapor continued to be brought from the Gulf of Thailand, and heavy rainfall was feared in southern Thailand until 30 days ago. Eight governments such as Chunpeng must pay attention to the flood caused by accumulated precipitation. China’s rubber producing areas began to stop cutting one after another, and the reduction of domestic and foreign supply significantly supported the rubber price.
3. Downstream demand: on November 24, according to the data of China passenger Federation, the overall retail sales of narrow passenger car market in the third week of November reached 49000 vehicles per day, a year-on-year decrease of 12%, and the performance was relatively improved, a decrease of 6% compared with the third week of October this year. Due to the obvious improvement of production in October, the retail recovery in November should be obvious, but the current recovery speed is still not fast, which is similar to that in 2019, and it is also a good performance.
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4. Inventory: the increment of warehouse receipts in the previous period is obvious; With the increase in the amount of rubber arriving at Hong Kong, the inventory of Qingdao free trade zone and tire factory has turned to accumulated inventory.
5. Import and export: in the first 10 months of 2021, Thailand exported 2.778 million tons of natural rubber (excluding composite rubber), a year-on-year increase of 30%, and 3.762 million tons of natural rubber and mixed rubber, a year-on-year increase of 7%; The total export to China was 1.975 million tons, a year-on-year decrease of 7%.
6. Policy: according to foreign media reports on November 26, once the price difference of fresh latex is 2 rupees per kilogram higher than that of rss4, the rubber board of India will provide subsidies to rubber farmers according to the price difference. The Bureau has taken measures to strengthen film production to fill the shortage in the domestic market.
Future forecast: there has been frequent rainfall in Southeast Asia recently, and it is reported that La Nina will reach the peak from the end of next month to January 2022. Another report says that a new type of deciduous disease has broken out in the rubber forests of Tsim Chuwen and Dalat Prefecture in Thailand, and the situation in foreign production areas is frequent, which has a comprehensive impact on the rubber cutting rate; At the same time, China’s domestic rubber has begun to stop cutting, and the supporting role of natural rubber supply side on the market has gradually appeared; According to the data of the passenger Association, the demand of downstream tire manufacturers has rebounded slightly; Rubber producing countries such as India provide subsidies to rubber farmers; In addition, the impact of the global epidemic on tire demand is particularly significant. To sum up, various factors have strong support for the trend of rubber. In view of the weak impact of current macro factors and crude oil and coal on bulk commodities, the recent range shock trend of natural rubber has both fundamental support and the weak trend caused by recent external system risks.
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