May 14 News – As of May 26, 2026, the ex-factory inventory of 200,000-ton-and-above fixed liquid caustic soda samples at domestic enterprises stood at 572,300 wet metric tons (wmt), up 0.12% month-on-month and surging 47.36% year-on-year. Chempricehub evaluates caustic soda with a bull-bear score of -1. In the spot market, as of May 14, 2026, the ex-factory inventory of 200,000-ton-and-above fixed liquid caustic soda samples at domestic enterprises reached 572,300 wmt, edging up 0.12% month-on-month and significantly up 47.36% year-on-year, underscoring pronounced supply-side pressure and weighing on caustic soda spot prices. In the futures market, on May 13, 2026, the main contract for caustic soda, SH2607, closed at 2,058 CNY/mt, with a settlement price of 2,043 CNY/mt, down 1 CNY, while deferred contracts saw increasingly wider declines. The overall trend remained weak, and high inventory levels exerted a notable bearish impact on futures prices.