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A cost index is the ratio of the actual price in a time period compared to that in a selected base period (a defined point in time or the average price in a certain year), multiplied by 100. Raw materials, products and energy prices, labor and construction costs change at different rates, and plant construction cost indexes are actually a ...
China Plastic & Rubber Journal (CPRJ) is a leading bimonthly Chinese journal distributed to qualified professionals and decision markers in the industry. It has been published since 1982 with a controlled circulation of 29,760 copies per issue.
A producer price index (PPI) is a price index that measures the average changes in prices received by domestic producers for their output. Formerly known as the wholesale price index between 1902 and 1978, the index is made up of over 16,000 establishments providing approximately 64,000 price quotations that the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) compiles each month to represent thousands ...
A closely watched survey on manufacturing in China has edged into positive territory after months of contraction, the government statistics agency said Thursday. The Purchasing Managers’ Index ...
where is the relative index of the price levels in two periods, is the base period (usually the first year), and the period for which the index is computed. Note that the only difference in the formulas is that the former uses period n quantities, whereas the latter uses base period (period 0) quantities.
However, China's domestic productivity still could not meet their demand for plastics. [8] Furthermore, the rising crude oil prices at the time also led to the inflation of the price of pure plastics. At the same time, although the price of waste plastics had also increased, waste plastics were still relatively cheap when compared to virgin ...
The chemical market value of China had increased in the past 30 years. In 2015, it represented about 30% of the chemicals demand all over the world. [19] China's demand growth of the chemical industry has slowed down from the two-digit rates in the past 10 years, but it still has 60% growth for the global demand from 2011 to 2020. [18]
The first index to track commodity futures prices was the Dow Jones futures index which started being listed in 1933 (backfilled to 1924). [1] The next such index was the CRB ("Commodity Research Bureau") Index, which began in 1958. Due to its construction both of these were not useful as an investment index.