News Corp and Dow Jones have completed the acquisition of the IHS Markit base chemicals business.
The business will now operate under the name Chemical Market Analytics by OPIS, a Dow Jones company.
Base Chemicals will sit within Dow Jones’ Professional Information Business (PIB), joining Oil Price Information Service (OPIS), Coal,
Metals & Mining (CMM), and PetroChem Wire (PCW), all recently acquired by Dow Jones.
Dow Jones will play a leading role in the new energy, chemicals, and renewable vertical.
The Chemical Market Analytics by OPIS, a Dow Jones company, the business provides short-term and long-term market coverage for
over 200 core building block chemicals, provided in Market Advisory Services (MAS), World Analysis (WA), Circular Plastics Service,
and the Chemical Advisory Service.