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Nickel: who will be the key player between supply and demand?
Global nickel use surged an extraordinary 16.2 percent last year, thanks to booming demand from the dominant stainless steel sector and the fast-growing battery sector. The result was a supply deficit of 168,000 tons, the largest production shortfall in at least a...
Copper: mining protests in Peru threaten to block $53 billion investment
Peru, the world's second-largest copper producer, risks losing billions of dollars in mining investment if the government fails to defuse protests that are affecting the sector and denting production. In the past year since socialist President Pedro Castillo took...
Tin: supply is running dangerously low
Despite a strong recovery in production, the tin market is still dangerously short of supply. According to the International Tin Association (ITA), global refined tin production increased by 11 percent to 378,400 tons last year. But if production is up, so is demand....
Aluminum: inventories in warehouses hit record low
Stocks of readily available aluminum in London Metal Exchange warehouses fell to an all-time low, the latest evidence of the growing tension in the global metals market between tight supplies and the increasingly bleak outlook for industrial demand. Metal that had not...