Last Friday evening, LME zinc prices opened at $2529/mt and closed at $2556/mt, up $26.5/mt or 1.05%. The trading volume reached 9108 lots, and the open interest reached 223,000 lots. LME zinc inventories decreased 2650 mt to 105400 mt, a decline of 2.45%.
Continuous decreases in overseas inventories have given bottom support to LME zinc, and the initial value of the Eurozone PMI in September was higher than expected at 47.1.
The most active SHFE 2311 zinc contract prices opened at 21900 yuan/mt and settled at 21785 yuan/mt last Friday evening, up 160 yuan/mt or 0.74%. Trading volumes stood at 72478 lots, and open interest stood at 130,000 lots.



