By Susan Zou / April 23, 2018 / www.metalbulletin.com /
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Good morning from Metal Bulletin's office in Shanghai as we bring you the latest news and pricing stories on Monday April 23.
Copper prices on the Shanghai Futures Exchange led the rest of the base metals higher during Asian morning trading on Monday, with the red metal benefitting from strong fundamental support.
Tin was the laggard, however, with its prices weakening slightly.
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| LME snapshot at 03.11 am London time |
| Latest three-month LME Prices |
| | Price ($ per tonne) | Change since yesterday's close ($) |
| Copper | 7,016.50 | 24.5 |
| Aluminium | 2,504.50 | 477.5 |
| Lead | 2,345 | -20 |
| Zinc | 3,258 | 25.5 |
| Tin | 21,615 | -110 |
| Nickel | 14,810 | -20 |
| SHFE snapshot at 10.12 am Shanghai time |
| Most-traded SHFE contracts |
| | Price (yuan per tonne) | Change since Friday's close (yuan) |
| Copper | 51,880 | 480 |
| Aluminium | 14,985 | 30 |
| Zinc | 24,545 | 150 |
| Lead | 18,395 | 70 |
| Tin | 148,390 | -90 |
| Nickel | 105,000 | 740 |
Hydro has notified UC Rusal that it
may be necessary to declare force majeure on certain contracts due to the United States imposing sanctions on the Russian aluminium producer, Hydro said last Friday.
Meanwhile, Glencore-owned Access World has
delisted 12 of its 20 London Metal Exchange-registered warehouses in Vlissingen in The Netherlands amid outflows of aluminium stocks after sanctions were imposed on Rusal.
The 6063 aluminium extrusion billet upcharge
hit an all-time high in the US this past week, coinciding with concerns among extruders regarding their ability to continue operating in the wake of sanctions against Russia.
Hydro has
halved bauxite output at its Paragominas mine in Brazil due to a government-imposed production cut at the company's Alunorte alumina refinery.
European spot prices for molybdic oxide and ferro-molybdenum have increased after a withdrawal in spot supplies of oxide
prompted a bout of short-covering that is likely to persist in the near term, according to industry sources.
The mood at this year's Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries convention and exposition was upbeat, though drastic shifts in trade policies combined with transportation challenges throughout the US market have left the industry
carefully navigating uncharted territory.