Zinc prices on the London Metal Exchange have climbed 23.6% over the last 12 months with the galvanizing metal firmly in a bull market and continuing to set fresh multi-year highs.
It has been the best performing base metal on the London Metal Exchange since 2016. Prices climbed to $3,595.50 per tonne on Thursday February 15 - the highest since July 2007. "Last year, no one imagined prices could go above $3,000 per tonne. Now they can't imagine them going below that level," Guy Wolf, global head of market analytics at Marex Spectron, told Metal Bulletin. "That process of an ever-increasing 'equilibrium' is typical of a bull market which is what we are in. The only time to be concerned is when sentiment is too extreme - that was the case at the start of February but is not now. There is no ceiling for prices until demand destruction occurs," he added. Zinc prices climbed above $3,000 per tonne for the first time in 10 years in August 2017 and have...