Global aluminium output was down by nearly 3% y/y in June, owing to lower Chinese production and outages in Canada and Brazil. We think that supply will pick up in the third quarter – ahead of China’s anti-pollution curbs on activity during the winter and the US sanctions on Russia’s Rusal in October – which could prevent any significant recovery in prices.
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