The three-month aluminium price on the London Metal Exchange continued its decline at the close of trading on Monday March 30, settling at its lowest level since April 2016, while a steady uptick in lead saw its outright price close at a two-week high.
30 March 2020
Hassan Butt
Zinc concentrate treatment charges (TCs) are dropping in China with smelters and traders scrambling to cover shortfalls in supply feed left by shuttered mines.
30 March 2020
Anna Xu, Archie Hunter, Rijuta Dey Bera
The three-month aluminium price on the London Metal Exchange was lower during morning trading on Monday March 30, with price action falling by around 1.6% after more than 24,000 tonnes of metal was delivered back to LME-registered warehouses across Asia.
30 March 2020
Hassan Butt
Markets were looking quite mixed this morning, Monday March 30, with most Asian-Pacific equity indices down, the pre-market Dow Jones Industrial Average up by 0.2%, oil prices down by around 5% and the base metals prices mixed.
30 March 2020
William Adams
Base metals prices on the Shanghai Futures Exchange were down across the board at the close of morning trading on Monday March 30, with aluminium leading the complex lower with a fall of 2.1%.
30 March 2020
Karen Ng
The three-month copper price on the London Metal Exchange closed below the $4,800-per-tonne psychological threshold on Friday March 27, finishing at the day $4,790.50 per tonne with a turnover of just 11,475 lots.
27 March 2020
Rijuta Dey Bera
Brazilian polymetallic producer Nexa Resources suspended its full-year 2020 guidance after the Peruvian government extended its state of emergency declaration until April 12, forcing domestic mines to remain idled, the company said on Thursday March 26.
27 March 2020
Renato Rostás
Base metals' stocks in Shanghai Futures Exchange-approved warehouses all fell over the week to Friday March 27, with lead, in particular, registering the biggest outflows.
27 March 2020
Violet Li
The three-month tin price on the London Metal Exchange was higher during morning trading on Friday March 27, with prices supported by a cancellation of 700 tonnes out of LME-registered warehouses in Port Klang, while zinc futures showed signs of improvement.
27 March 2020
Hassan Butt
Markets are looking quite mixed this morning, Friday March 27, with most Asian-Pacific equity indices up, the pre-market Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) down by 1.1%, while base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange and Shanghai Futures Exchange are up and gold is down from recent highs.
27 March 2020
William Adams
