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Raw Materials, Weak Demand Divides Markets: Falling Scrap, Resilient US Steel And Sharp Drops In Copper And Lead Inventories
October 27, 2026 does not offer market participants a uniform trend, but rather a geography of prices and availability moving at different speeds. In Turkey, weak sales of long products push imported scrap lower; in the United States, HRC scarcity keeps steel costs...
Battery Recycling, Black Mass Loses Value: Nickel And Cobalt Weigh On The Market After LME Week
The battery recycling supply chain is going through a period of shrinking margins, despite the strategic attention devoted in Europe and Asia to the recovery of nickel, cobalt and lithium. During LME Week, from October 18 to 23, operators and processors described a...
LME Week 2026: Copper Under Pressure, Uncertain Aluminium And Five Metals Heading Toward A Divergent 2027
There is no longer a single interpretation of the non-ferrous metals market. Discussions held in London during LME Week showed how the outlooks for the five main industrial segments are driven by different factors: copper is affected by high prices and smelter...
Nickel, Indonesia Stirs Markets With Unconfirmed Cuts: MHP, Matte and NPI Amid High Stocks and Weak Demand
Nickel is once again moving more on expectations than on actual changes in metal flows. At the end of October 2026, rumours of a possible coordinated production reduction in Indonesia helped sentiment recover among operators in MHP, nickel matte and nickel pig iron...