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The Tungsten Market Changes Tone After The Extreme Rally
The global tungsten market is entering a more complex and less linear phase after months of exceptional increases. In the week ended Friday May 15, European ferro-tungsten prices continued to weaken, while the seaborne market for ammonium paratungstate, or APT,...
Middle East Aluminium Smelters Seek Alternative Routes To The Strait Of Hormuz
Middle East aluminium smelters are trying to bypass the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, now blocked for about two and a half months, through alternative logistics solutions both to export metal and to import alumina, the essential raw material to feed primary...
Copper Rewards Producers, But Concentrates Remain Under Pressure
The first quarter of 2026 showed an increasingly evident contradiction in the global copper market: producers reported very high earnings thanks to record metal prices, but concentrate production declined at several key operations. The picture emerging from company...
SHFE Base Metals Move In Mixed Order, With Tin In Greater Weakness
Base metals prices on the Shanghai Futures Exchange showed a mixed performance in the morning of Tuesday May 19, reflecting a more selective market, less directional and increasingly attentive to the relationship between financial risk, physical availability and real...