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Metals price news brings you real-time updates and expert analysis on the prices of key industrial and precious metals. Track fluctuations in gold, copper, lithium, nickel, and rare earths, and understand the economic, geopolitical, and supply-chain forces behind them. This category helps investors, analysts, manufacturers, and traders stay informed with accurate spot pricing, historical trends, and price outlooks. For deeper insights, explore Market Intelligence, Commodities, and Mining Finance.
Gold prices fell sharply after stronger-than-expected U.S. payrolls revived expectations that the Federal Reserve could raise interest rates at its Sept. 15-16 meeting, reversing some of…
Gold bars in a secure bullion storage facility. Gold’s bullish trend is facing a near-term test from U.S. economic data, with prices consolidating after a pullback…
Lithium carbonate processing infrastructure highlights the industrial supply chain behind China’s battery-materials market. Lithium carbonate is trading around the 150,000 yuan ($20,800) per tonne level as…
Silver’s price outlook is being shaped by a market that remains physically tight but increasingly exposed to industrial efficiency gains and interest-rate risk. The Silver Institute…
Lithium prices are entering a more uncertain phase as demand from electric vehicles and energy storage rises while project delays limit the amount of new material…
Copper smelter casting line in a modern industrial processing facility. Copper’s 2026 outlook is being shaped by an unusual combination of tight concentrate supply, historically low…
Freshly cast silver bullion at an industrial refining facility. Silver enters 2026 with a supportive physical-market backdrop but a less certain macroeconomic outlook. The Silver Institute…
Lithium prices are entering 2026 with a market that is no longer defined by clear oversupply. Demand from electric vehicles and battery energy storage is accelerating,…
Copper enters 2026 with an unusually wide gap between market signals. Prices are near record levels, inventories are concentrated in the United States, and treatment charges…
An underground silver mine and processing complex in a mountainous region. Silver enters the next phase of its market cycle with two opposing forces in view.…
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