Thawing

With most markets either in or entering a thawing-out phase, a price retreat from the worst siege of weather in the overall mild winter of 2001/02 was in order Tuesday. Declines between about a nickel and a little more than a dime were most common. The biggest ones came at the points that had been soaring the day before: Northeast and Florida citygates. A minor OFO kept California numbers mostly flat.