Nobody ever wants to be the chief executive officer that goes down in history as permanently closing the London Metal Exchange open outcry floor. That undesirable title, should the situation arise, will now not go to its current head, Matthew Chamberlain.
21 January 2022
Andrea Hotter
Base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange were down across the board on the morning of Friday January 21, but this was after impressive across-the-board gains averaging 4% a day earlier.
21 January 2022
William Adams
Base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange and the Shanghai Futures Exchange were mainly stronger on the morning of Thursday January 20. Aluminium was an exception, but nickel and tin roared higher.
20 January 2022
William Adams
Base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange and the Shanghai Futures Exchange were mixed on the morning of Wednesday January 19 amid headwinds from stronger bond yields and weakness in equities.
19 January 2022
William Adams
Base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange and the Shanghai Futures Exchange were more up than down on the morning of Tuesday January 18, with tin, nickel and aluminium on the LME extending gains, while the other metals were consolidating.
18 January 2022
William Adams
Base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange and the Shanghai Futures Exchange were mixed on the morning of Friday January 14, with only nickel and lead prices continuing to rise, while the rallies in the other metals seem to have paused.
14 January 2022
William Adams
Brazilian base metals producer Nexa Resources has scaled back production at its Vazante underground zinc mine by 40% because of extreme, heavy rainfall in the southeastern state of Minas Gerais.
13 January 2022
Renato Rostás
Base metals prices on the Shanghai Futures Exchange and the London Metal Exchange were mixed on the morning of Thursday January 13, but this was after generally strong performances a day earlier when copper breached the $10,000-per-tonne level for the first time since October.
13 January 2022
William Adams
Base metals prices on the Shanghai Futures Exchanged registered strong gains on Wednesday January 12, building on the increases on the London Metal Exchange a day earlier. LME metals are having a mixed Wednesday morning, but they generally look upbeat, especially tin and nickel.
12 January 2022
William Adams
Fastmarkets holiday pricing schedule for 2022 is available online.
07 January 2022
Fastmarkets MB staff
