The moving average of the basket of crude oil prices, to which China's product oil prices are pegged, declined 2.51 percent as of December 3 from the latest cycle of fuel price adjustment, according to Xinhua's calculations.
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Table 1: Change of moving average of crude oil price basket |
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Date |
December 1 |
December 2 |
December 3 |
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Change rate |
-0.49 percent |
-2.78 percent |
-2.51 percent |
December 4 is the third working day in current 10-working day cycle.
Under current mechanism, benchmark prices of gasoline and diesel will be adjusted every 10 working days except when the adjustment is less than 50 yuan/tonne. The unrealized change would be counted into the following cycle of price adjustment.
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