There are few companies with more at stake from Russian natural-gas flows into Germany than the chemicals sector.
Shares of chemicals companies including BASF XE:BAS, Lanxess XE:LXS and Covestro XE:1COV have each tumbled over the past month, in part on concern that Russia won’t resume gas flows via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline at the end of the scheduled maintenance period on July 21.
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