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Stock data at odds with prices

There has been a dramatic drawdown of Shanghai lead inventories in the last month and a surge in LME copper stocks in the last week. Otherwise, total stock movements have been relatively subdued, with small rises for aluminium, tin and zinc, while copper and nickel stocks were broadly flat.

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