By Karen Ng / March 01, 2018 / www.metalbulletin.com /
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Good morning from Metal Bulletin's office in Singapore as we bring you the latest news and pricing stories on Thursday March 1.
Base metals traded on the Shanghai Futures Exchange were broadly lower during Asian morning trading on Thursday, with a resurgent dollar curbing investors' appetite for the metals.
Check Metal Bulletin's live futures report
here.
| LME snapshot at 02.14am London time |
| Latest three-month LME Prices |
| | Price ($ per tonne) | Change since yesterday's close ($) |
| Copper | 6,949.50 | 18.5 |
| Aluminium | 2,138 | 6 |
| Lead | 2,502 | 0 |
| Zinc | 3,468 | 20.5 |
| Tin | 21,550 | 20 |
| Nickel | 13,690 | -100 |
| SHFE snapshot at 10.13am Shanghai time |
| Most-traded SHFE contracts |
| | Price (yuan per tonne) | Change since yesterday's close (yuan) |
| Copper | 52,380 | -210 |
| Aluminium | 14,335 | 10 |
| Zinc | 26,445 | 45 |
| Lead | 19,120 | -85 |
| Tin | 147,520 | -550 |
| Nickel | 104,260 | -750 |
A top official from within the Peoples' Republic of China has made public the government's dissatisfaction with the US Department of Commerce's findings regarding Chinese foil exports -
calling the duties "unreasonable."
Despite the US copper cathode premium hovering at its highest level since October 2016, the trading community has
endured shrinking margins due to soaring freight rates, increased financing costs and a lack of consumer interest.
The alumina market has
become increasingly diversified in terms of the origin of material transacting in the spot market, according to a senior pricing reporter at Metal Bulletin.
Lead scrap and spent lead-acid battery prices in the United States
rose amid persistent competition from overseas markets, which continued to put pressure on domestic consumers.
Codelco's commercial vice president, Rodrigo Toro, and the general manager of its Salvador division, Juan Carlos Avenda??o,
are leaving the company, the Chilean copper miner said late on Wednesday.
Refineries in India are
working to find ways to deal with the hazardous residue created from bauxite during the alumina production process, according to the president of the International Bauxite, Alumina and Aluminium Society.