Aluminium

Aluminium is the light industrial metal whose production is mostly electricity, so its price is partly a power price. China makes over half the world's supply and the LME is the real market. Module 2 covers it with copper; aluminium on Mochatrade.

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  • CopperCopper is the industrial metal priced three ways: LME in dollars per tonne, COMEX in cents per pound, Shanghai in…
  • LMEThe LME is the London Metal Exchange, started in a coffee house in 1877, where copper, aluminium, nickel and zinc are…
  • PalladiumPalladium is the metal in petrol car exhausts: over 80% of demand is catalytic converters and Russia mines about two…
  • UraniumUranium is reactor fuel sold mostly on long-term contracts with no exchange spot market, so its price is a…
  • PlatinumPlatinum is a precious metal whose price is a bet on factories and car exhausts: South Africa mines about 70% of it…
  • Real-world asset (RWA)A real-world asset is a physical or financial thing, gold, oil, a US share, whose price you can hold a claim on and…

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