The latest news and price moves to start the Asian day on Wednesday July 18.

The latest news and price moves to start the Asian day on Tuesday July 17.

Base metal market volatility is here for the long haul, according to a fund that has banked profits from the violent sanction-led price swings that have characterized market movements in the first half of 2018.

Base metals prices remained on a back footing this morning, Monday July 16, with three-month prices on the London Metal Exchange down by an average of 0.7%. Prices are in low ground with US trade policy and slow/slowing global economic growth weighing on prices.

The escalating China-US trade tensions and China supply-side reforms were in the spotlight at the Base Metals Forum held by Citic Securities this week in Wuxi, Jiangsu province.

The latest news and price moves to start the Asian day on Friday July 13.

Domestic steel prices in China are picking up strength after news of summer production cuts in the country’s steelmaking hub of Tangshan broke.

Correspondent Dalton Barker recaps the week in the non-ferrous markets.

After a two-year period of super-fast growth, the expansion of London Metal Exchange warehouses in Asia slowed significantly over the past year. But what lies behind the change - especially as LME storage space in Europe has also continued to dwindle?

Due to a data error, Metal Bulletin’s spot premium assessment for Shanghai in-warehouse copper ER cathodes was published incorrectly on Monday June 11.