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Record W4367609767 · doi:10.1021/cen-10114-buscon1

Dow’s first quarter comes in at a loss

2023· article· en· W4367609767 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Alex Tullo

Bibliographic record

VenueC&EN Global Enterprise · 2023
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicEconomic and Technological Developments in Russia
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsQuarter (Canadian coin)EarningsEconomicsBusinessFinanceHistory

Abstract

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In the first major earnings announcement of 2023, Dow has posted a loss for the first quarter—an indication that the weak global economy, particularly in Europe, has created tough conditions for the chemical industry. Dow’s sales for the quarter were $11.9 billion, a 22% decline from the first quarter of 2022. The company posted a net loss of $73 million, compared with profits of nearly $1.6 billion in the year-earlier quarter. “Declines in all operating segments were driven by continued soft global macroeconomic activity,” Dow CEO Jim Fitterling said in a conference call with analysts. The results are in line with the expectations of BASF and Covestro, both of which recently disclosed estimates for the quarter. Blaming low production volumes, BASF expects sales in the quarter to drop by 13%. Covestro forecasts a 20% drop. Dow notes some positives, however. Sales were flat versus the fourth quarter of 2022, which

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.006
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Editorial · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.108
Threshold uncertainty score0.362

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.006
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0040.001
Scholarly communication0.0110.002
Open science0.0000.002
Research integrity0.0030.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.1080.056

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.012
GPT teacher head0.288
Teacher spread0.276 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEditorial

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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