The base metals traded on the London Metal Exchange have kicked off the new trading week with a broadly positive performance this morning, Monday April 23.

Decreases in China’s domestic and export coke prices have not been halted, although some market participants had expected they would, because the steel markets have yet to gain momentum and coking coal prices are still weakening.

Base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange are for the most part weaker this morning, Tuesday October 10, with prices down by an average of 0.3%. The exception is copper where three-month prices are up by 0.4% at $6,693 per tonne. The rest are off between 0.1% for tin prices and 0.8% for nickel prices. Volume has been average with 9,001 lots as of 07:11BST.

It was another firmer start for the three-month base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange this morning, Thursday December 13, with all the metals in positive territory and showing average gains of 0.6%.

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

After recent strong performances by the base metals traded on the London Metal Exchange, most prices started to consolidate at the beginning of the week and are down an average of 0.3% this morning, Tuesday February 26.

Base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange are for the most part consolidating this morning, Wednesday March 14, although copper and lead prices are showing gains of 0.5% and 0.3% respectively, with the former at $6,984 per tonne.

Three-month base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange were firm on the morning of Friday November 30 despite the release of weaker-than-expected economic data from China earlier in the day.

Base metals traded on the London Metal Exchange are for the most part consolidating after recent weakness, the exceptions are aluminium prices that are up by 0.7% at $2,147 per tonne and lead prices that are down by 0.5% at $2,490 per tonne. The rest are little changed, with copper prices recently quoted at $6,943 per tonne.

Base metals traded on the London Metal Exchange are for the most part weaker this morning, Thursday November 23, with prices down by an average of 0.4%. Lead (-1.2%) and nickel (-1.1%) lead on the downside, while the rest are between unchanged and down by 0.2%. Three-month copper prices are off by 0.2% at $6,922 per tonne.