Lead and zinc began the week slightly higher while the rest of the base metals on the London Metal Exchange came under pressure on Monday January 8.
Zinc was Monday morning's best performer, up $13 to $3,365 per tonne. Aluminium, meanwhile, continued to slip marginally lower, down $12 to $2,193.50 per tonne."There's some consolidation, it's a pretty quiet start to the week after an active start to the year," Warren Patterson, commodities strategist at ING Bank, said.Base metals in Asia came off slightly...