Base metals on the London Metal Exchange are up across the board this morning, Thursday June 15, with prices up by an average of 0.6%. The move has happened at a higher than average volume of 8,685 lots as of 07:03 BST.

Base metals prices are pulling back to consolidate this morning, Tuesday January 17, with three-month prices on the London Metal Exchange down an average of 1% as of 06:08 GMT with the pullback been done at quite a high volume of 11,288 lots.

Scrap prices in the global markets continued to go down during the working week from Monday April 17 to Friday April 21, with falling steel prices in China.

Base metals prices were weaker again this morning, Thursday April 20, with three-month prices on the London Metal Exchange down an average of 1% as of 06:38 BST, with zinc and lead prices off the most with losses of 1.6% and 1.5%, respectively, copper prices are off 0.7% at $5,557 per tonne, while aluminium prices are off the least with a 0.2% drop to $1,908.50 per tonne. Prices have since started to rebound.

The base metals on the London Metal Exchange are little changed this morning, Tuesday March 28, with three-month copper prices at $5,799 per tonne and volume has been light with 4,937 lots traded as of 05:55 BST.

Base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange are consolidating at lower numbers this morning, Friday January 13, with prices down an average of 0.7%, this is after a bullish day on Thursday, when prices climbed an average of 2%.

The base metals on the London Metal Exchange are up across the board by an average of 0.5% this morning, Thursday October 26. Aluminium leads the way with a 0.9% rally to $2,209.50 per tonne – the high so far has been $2,215, which means prices have surpassed the October 2012 peak of $2,212. Copper prices ($7,022 per tonne) and tin prices are up 0.2%, while the rest are up between 0.5% and 0.6%.

Prices in the international steel billet market moved in different directions in the week ended Friday May 18 with the factors influencing market decisions varying from region to region.

Manganese ore inventories in Chinese ports have dropped 50% since April 2017 despite higher imports and almost unchanged silico-manganese production in 2017, according to Metal Bulletin data; Metal Bulletin asks why during the 19th Asian Ferro-Alloys Conference held in Hong Kong.

South Korean mills are likely to post worse-than-expected results for the fourth quarter of 2012, but they can also look forward to a healthy rebound in fortunes this year, Samsung Securities says.