Flash: Copper spot premiums in Shanghai

Quotes of import premiums for warrants stood at $10-$30/mt today. The average price was $20/mt under warrants, which is stable compared with the last trading day.

Hundreds of workers working in Mount Polley copper concentrate near Williams Lake in Columbia, Britain are being recalled.

Shanghai base metals mostly trended lower on Tuesday morning after US dollar rallied significantly. Meanwhile, their counterparts on LME performed similarly.

Shanghai nonferrous metals mostly closed in the positive territory as the market was cheered up by the macro front, as China released its December official manufacturing and non-manufacturing PMI readings, which topped market expectation.

Shanghai base metals basically trended lower amid a cautious market which expected the Fed to wrap up the bond purchasing program early than estimate. Meanwhile, their counterparts on LME mostly closed in the positive zone.

Shanghai base metals basically trended higher on Friday morning. Meanwhile, their counterparts on LME trended mixed.

China’s copper cathode output stood at 825,900 mt in November, up 4.6% month on month and 0.5% year on year

The copper cathode inventory in Guangdong has fallen below the 10,000 mt mark, and stand at only 6,527 mt, the lowest since 2018, according to our SMM statistics.

The SMM average price of 8-12% high-grade NPI stood at 1,502.5 yuan/mtu (ex-works, including tax) as of Friday October 22, up 57.5 yuan/mtu from a week earlier, and the average price of Indonesian NPI stood at 1,497.5 yuan/mtu (including tax, delivery to ports), 55 yuan/mtu higher than a week earlier.

As of Friday October 15, the copper inventory in the mainstream Chinese market fell 7,200 mt from Monday October 11 to 105,200 mt. The decrease was mainly contributed by Guangdong, Shanghai and Jiangsu, whose inventory fell 5,200 mt, 4,300 mt and 800 mt to 9,300 mt, 75,700 mt and 12,500 mt, respectively.