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Chinese outages won’t boost LME aluminium price

Smelter outages in China have led to a surge in the ShFE price of aluminium, and there is mounting speculation that the LME price will soon follow suit. We disagree. In contrast, our in-house model suggests that aluminium prices will fall in the coming months.

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