Most deliverable base metals inventories in Shanghai Futures Exchange (SHFE)-registered warehouses rose in the week to Friday March 29, with aluminium registering the largest gains in percentage terms while lead logged the largest outflow.
29 March 2024
Ruby Liu
Base metal prices on the Shanghai Futures Exchange (SHFE) moved in divergent directions during morning trading on Friday March 29, with lead again posting the largest gain.
29 March 2024
Ruby Liu
Lead saw the biggest gains among the base metals on the London Metal Exchange, with the whole complex, bar tin, rising by the 5pm close ahead of the Easter break on Thursday, March 28.
28 March 2024
James McKeigue
The decline in spot copper concentrate treatment and refining charges (TC/RCs) continued in the week to Friday March 28, with Fastmarkets’ CIF Asia TC index moving closer to zero and setting another fresh all-time low.
28 March 2024
Sally Zhang, Albert Mackenzie
A summary of the London Metal Exchange base metals warrant premiums from across the globe in the two weeks ended Wednesday March 27.
28 March 2024
Natasha Porter
The most recent financial results published by base metals mining companies highlight just how inflation is affecting profit margins, with increasing wages, financing costs and input prices all hitting profits, sources told Fastmarkets in the week to Thursday March 28.
28 March 2024
Albert Mackenzie
Nickel was the standout performer of the London Metal Exchange base metals on Thursday March 28, in an overall mixed trading session.
28 March 2024
James McKeigue
China's Copper Smelters Purchase Team (CSPT) failed to set a buying guidance for copper concentrate treatment and refining charges (TC/RCs) for the second quarter of 2024, and it is calling for production cut amid the free-falling copper concentrate TC/RC market, Fastmarkets learned on Thursday March 28.
28 March 2024
Sally Zhang
Most base metal prices on the Shanghai Futures Exchange (SHFE) rose during morning trading on Thursday March 28, with lead posting the largest gain and tin being the only base metal to log a dip.
28 March 2024
Chay Chye Leng
Chile’s government has laid out its plan to significantly boost the country’s lithium production, opening up 26 lithium salt flats for private investment and naming the Atacama and Maricunga salt flats as strategic to the state.
27 March 2024
Andrea Hotter