by Kyle Fitzsimmons on JANUARY 17, 2017

Last week, tin prices on the London Mercantile Exchange increased but the real story has been overall commodity pressure to begin 2017.

According to a recent report from the Economic Calendar, tin has ebbed and flowed in a narrow range to begin the year with last week’s upward move attributed to “a slight pullback in the value of the U.S. dollar.”

Donald Levit wrote: “Tin experienced a positive performance in 2016 amid solid demand from China with idled domestic tin capacity resulting in the need for higher imports. However, concerns are that China will start to ramp up its idled capacity, and that will change the market.”

China’s manufacturing PMI registered higher than expected recently, adding to tin’s momentum. In November, China imported more tin ore and concentrates with refined tin imports falling off substantially, the news source stated.