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Copper prices have traded on either side of $4 in 2023. Over the past year, copper has poked its head over the $4 level in seven months and was below it for five months. At just below the $3.90 per pound level on December 19, nearby copper futures could be…

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The base metals sector includes copper, aluminum, nickel, lead, zinc, and tin, the nonferrous metals that trade on the London Metals Exchange. While the CME’s COMEX division offers a liquid copper futures contract, the LME is the world’s leading base metals exchange. In Q2, base metals prices declined.

Copper prices continue to make lower lows after reaching a record $5.01 per pound high in March 2022. The copper market’s technical trend remains bearish, but fundamentals do not support the red metal’s current path of least resistance.

Fundamental supply and demand analysis finds support from technical analysis; the case for higher or lower prices can be compelling. It creates market confusion when they diverge, leading to sudden and potentially violent price volatility. Copper’s fundamentals remain bullish, but the technical picture has turned ugly.

Britain published plans to ban imports of Russian diamonds, copper, aluminium and nickel on Friday and announced new sanctions against Russia, targeting companies connected to the suspected theft of Ukrainian grain.

Many market participants remain bullish on the prospects for copper prices as Goldman Sachs and other analysts continue to call the red industrial metal the new crude oil. Copper is a critical input in green energy initiatives, boosting demand in an environment where inventories have declined, and new production will…

The base metals sector of the commodities market includes copper, aluminum, nickel, lead, zinc, and tin forwards that trade on the London Metals Exchange and copper futures that trade on the CME’s COME division. The base metals and industrial commodities sector declined in Q1 2023.

The base metals sector of the commodities market includes copper, aluminum, nickel, lead, zinc, and tin forwards that trade on the London Metals Exchange and copper futures that trade on the CME’s COME division. The base metals and industrial commodities sector declined in Q1 2023.