London Metal Exchange (LME) is the Futures Exchange with the World's Largest Market

London Metal Exchange (LME) is the Futures Exchange with the World’s Largest Market

Gold Silver Reports (GSR) – The London Metal Exchange (LME) is the futures exchange with the world’s largest market in options and futures contracts on base and other metals. As the LME offers contracts with daily expiry dates of up to three months from trade date, weekly contracts to six months, and monthly contracts up to 123 months, it also allows for cash trading. It offers hedging, worldwide reference pricing, and the option of physical delivery to settle contracts. Since 2012 it has been owned by Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing, after LME’s shareholders voted in July 2012 to approve the sale of the exchange for a price of £1.4 billion.                             

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Hindalco, NALCO, Vedanta Slump As Aluminium Price Falls Most Since 2010; Sugar Producers Rise On Expectation Of Cane Subsidy

Gold Silver Reports (GSR) – Hindalco, NALCO, Vedanta Slump As Aluminium Price Falls Most Since 2010 – Shares of Hindalco, Vedanta and NALCO fell as much as 9 percent after aluminium slumped 7 percent on London Metal Exchange, the most since 2010, following softening of the U.S. government’s stance on Russian sanctions.

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Base Metal Prices Today

Braking News; Base Metals Drift Lower on LME; Novelis No Longer Purchasing Aluminium from Rusal; China to ban Category 7 Copper Scrap Imports by Year End

The latest Base Metals news and price moves to start the Asian day on Friday April 20.          

Base metal prices on the London Metal Exchange were lower at the close of trading on Thursday April-19-2018 despite aluminium volumes reaching a recordHigh of 41,000 lots. Read more in our live futures report.          

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Hindalco, Vedanta Gain After Aluminium Rises In International Market

Hindalco, Vedanta Gain After Aluminium Rises In International Market 

Shares of Hindalco and Vedanta rose as much as 2.8 percent and 2.7 percent each respectively after aluminium prices rose in international markets after buyers stopped buying aluminium from the world’s largest manufacturer — Rusal following sanctions imposed by U.S.           

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MCX Aluminium Above 125 Target 138—142

Why U.S. Sanctions On Rusal Will Benefit Indian Aluminium Producers

Gold Silver Reports (GSR) – Why U.S. Sanctions On Rusal Will Benefit Indian Aluminium Producers — Integrated domestic aluminium producers — with presence from raw materials to the final product — like Hindalco Ltd. and National Aluminium Company Ltd. stand to gain more than Vedanta Ltd., said Goutam Chakraborty, analyst-institutional research at brokerage Emkay Global Financial Services.                                         

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Trump Trade Fears Take Gold and Palladium Futures on a Wild Ride

Gold Silver Reports (GSR) – Trump Trade Fears Take Gold and Palladium Futures on a Wild Ride – Measures of 60-day historical volatility for gold and palladium futures climbed to the highest in about a year. Volatility in silver also increased. Prices were whipsawed last week as Trump administration officials tried to calm markets, while their boss warned of short-lived “pain” from a trade stand-off with China. In Russia, the largest palladium producer, dozens of companies and key allies of President Vladimir Putin are facing a new wave of U.S. sanctions.

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