Chemical makers will benefit from improved consumer and business confidence end second-half 2004 and into nearest year.

Chemical makers will benefit from improved consumer and business confidence end second-half 2004 and into nearest year, according to ACC's mid-2004 watch published last week. However, natural gas and mechanical value prices are expected to continue battering the industry, ACC says. "At the mid-point of 2004 it is clear that the global economic regaining that accelerated in mid-2003 has spread wider and

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