(AOF) –
Metabolic Explorer
(+ 4.85% to 1.77 euros)
The title of the biological chemistry company continues its recovery started mid-session (+ 7.76%), after a sharp fall (- 42.6% on June 30) linked to the severe warning on the objectives published at the end of June.
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A second part of the year at risk
Chemical players should be faced with a scissors effect. First, they have to face an explosion of costs: experts estimate that in 2022 natural gas prices should increase by 470% and electricity prices by around 300% following the war in Ukraine. Added to this is an oil price that is also on the rise. On the other hand, their ability to increase prices should be penalized by a less dynamic economic context, linked in particular to the difficulties on the Chinese market, weighed down by a wave of confinements. The world leader, BASF, anticipates a decline of between 6% and 14% in its profits in 2022.