Near-Record Prices at LME Prompt Chinese Companies to Export 100,000 Tons of Copper
Copper is a heavily traded metal that has different applications in a number of industries. The metal’s producers in China plan to export nearly 100,000 metric tons, their highest volume in more than a decade. Their objective is to cool a rally that has pushed prices toward new highs. Producers in the East Asian country are selling into the rally, driven by a frenzy that saw prices of the red metal on the London Metal Exchange reach $10,208 per metric ton. This figure is about $600 short of its March 2022 high, when copper reached $10,845 a metric ton. Sources…