The moving average of the basket of crude oil prices, to which China's product oil prices are pegged, gained 0.96 percent as of May 18 from the latest cycle of fuel prices adjustment, according to Xinhua's calculations.
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Change of moving average of crude oil price basket |
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Date |
May 14 |
May 15 |
May 18 |
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Change rate |
0.94 percent |
1.05 percent |
0.96 percent |
May 19 is the sixth 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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