All the latest metal news and price moves from Metal Bulletin.

Metal Bulletin's editor Alex Harrison brings you the biggest news and price moves from the metal market over the past week.

Aluminium prices are likely to perform relatively well in the coming year, while nickel will be neutral, analysts at Citigroup told Metal Bulletin.

Commodities fund Tiberius is seeking to underpin a new world of digital currency transactions with a bullish future for industrial and precious metals, by launching a physical metals-backed cryptocurrency called Tiberius Coin.

Three-month base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange were for the most part firmer this morning, Tuesday December 11, with average gains of 0.2%. This after they again tested support levels on Monday, when support held to varying degrees.

Base metals prices on the Shanghai Futures Exchange were mostly down during Asian morning trading on Thursday January 3 amid lingering concerns over slowing economic growth in China after the release of disappointing manufacturing data from the country earlier this week.

Base metals prices on the Shanghai Futures Exchange were all down during morning trading on Tuesday March 5, with renewed strength in the US dollar and soft Chinese economic data denting investors’ appetite for risk.

There is at least a month-long queue to take nickel units out of Johor sheds, traders in Southeast Asia said this week, adding that the arbitrage window was still unfavourable for imports to China.

Base metals prices on the Shanghai Futures Exchange were broadly up during Asian morning trading on Friday December 28, with weakness in the dollar buoying most of the complex.

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Ltd (HKEx) posted a 73% increase in profit attributable to shareholders in the first half of 2015 to HK$4.10 billion ($527.8 million) due to its commercialisation strategy for the LME, higher trading and clearing fees and increased market activity.