An escalation in geopolitical tensions over the weekend dampened sentiment during Asian morning trading on Monday April 16 with the base metals traded on the Shanghai Futures Exchange broadly down.

Metal Bulletin deputy editor Fleur Ritzema picks out some of the week's top stories and price moves in metals.

Record high premiums are the main topic at the Metal Bulletin 27th Aluminium conference in Moscow this week, but nobody is moaning too loudly, because there are no real losers.

Base metals prices were higher across the board this morning, Friday October 13, while copper climbed back above $6,900 per tonne due to support from stronger fundamentals.

The social trends that led to the 1960s being known as the “Swinging Sixties” might appear, at first glance, to have had little relevance to the metal markets.

Metal Bulletin reviews the major stories affecting the steel market over the past week.

Swiss commodity giant Glencore doubled its traded volumes of iron ore in 2014 to 60 million tonnes, making it one of the largest traders of the raw material in the world, sources told Steel First on Thursday February 12.

Metal Bulletin’s Charlotte Radford reviews some of the key news from the past seven days.

The longer I spend looking at commodity markets, the more I wonder how many people actually understand what makes them behave as they do (and for the avoidance of doubt, I include myself in that non-comprehending majority).

Copper prices on the Shanghai Futures Exchange (SHFE) tracked those on the London Metal Exchange (LME) lower during Asian morning trading on Thursday May 24 as the US dollar continued to strengthen, while lead saw its rally continue apace.