The outbreak of coronavirus in China threatens to derail the recovery we were expecting in the price of copper this year. In fact, when our estimate for the potential loss of copper demand is plugged into our forecast for the market balance, a surplus emerges in 2020. This would be a drastically different outcome from the deficit we currently anticipate.
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