Copper prices traded back towards $5,700 per tonne on the London Metal Exchange on Tuesday March 10, as gains made at the start of the week were erased in an overnight sell-off.

At the end of another busy week in the Metal Bulletin newsrooms, deputy editor Fleur Ritzema takes a look back at some of the key stories.

Metal Bulletin’s editor, analysts and senior correspondents will be in Zug, Switzerland, on Thursday March 12 to discuss recent trends and future developments in the copper and aluminium markets.

Hotline well remembers studying Coleridge’s famous poem Kubla Khan in English Literature lessons as a child, even going so far as to be able to recite the entire first stanza.

Conference season was in full swing last week, and the news was coming in thick and fast. Here we take a look at some of the key stories from the past week.

Christian Schirmeister reached an agreement to leave JP Morgan on Monday February 23, five years after joining the bank as part of the team it acquired from RBS Sempra, he confirmed to Metal Bulletin sister title Copper Price Briefing.

Changes to initial margins on spreads that the London Metal Exchange’s clearing house LME Clear will bring in on March 3 will reduce the total margins that its members must post to the clearing house by $300 million or 3%, LME Clear chief executive Trevor Spanner told Metal Bulletin.

Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) will increase refined copper output in Zambia following a decision by the Zambian government to resume VAT rebates related to copper exports, the company said on Monday February 23.

While Chinese New Year may have left some markets deflated, it was another busy week for Metal Bulletin’s news teams across the rest of the world.

Vale’s copper production hit a record high in 2014, but fell short of the company’s guidance for the year, the Brazilian miner said on Thursday February 19.