Japan demand hopes spur refining shares

Posted on March 21, 2011 at 23:29 PM EDT

Shares of Asian petrochemical and refining firms jump on hopes the supply gap created by capacity outages in the wake of Japan’s earthquake and tsunami would boost their utilization levels and margins.

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