Base metals prices on the Shanghai Futures Exchange were mostly up during morning trading on Tuesday August 7, with nickel outperforming the rest of the complex with a gain of 1.7%.

“We want to be leaders in what we do,” Vital Materials’ chief executive officer, George Zhu, told Fastmarkets MB during a visit to the company.

Equities sold off after the US Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) suggested that its rate cut was simply a mid-cycle adjustment rather than the start of monetary easing.

Three-month base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange were up across the board by an average of 0.7% on the morning of Thursday November 15.

Base metals prices traded on the Shanghai Futures Exchange were broadly up during Asian morning trading on Friday February 22, with only copper and tin weakening.

Asian equities were weaker in the morning of Wednesday July 31 on uncertainty on the progress in US/China trade negotiations, although base metals, which have focused more on brighter Chinese manufacturing purchasing managers’ index (PMI) data, rose by an average of 0.4%.

The three-month base metals prices traded on the London Metal Exchange were mixed on the morning of Monday February 18.

Base metals prices on the Shanghai Futures Exchange were under pressure during Asian morning trading on Friday July 20, with the majority of the complex little changed to weaker. Tin was the exception, however, with a modest gain of 0.4%.

Three-month base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange were mixed on the morning of Friday July 6, with nickel (-0.8%), zinc (+1.1%) and aluminium (+0.3%) the main movers, while copper at $6,326 per tonne and tin at $19,455 per tonne were little changed. That said, copper did spike down to a low of $6,221.50 per tonne at around 4am London time.

Three-month base metals prices on the London Metal Exchange exhibited mixed movements while consolidating this morning, Thursday January 17. Copper, nickel, lead and zinc were down by between 0.1% and 0.5%, while aluminium and tin prices were up by 0.3% and 0.4% respectively.