Albemarle's lithium carbonate bidding ends. 

SHANGHAI, May 29 (SMM) – The prices of ADC12 secondary aluminium alloy fell 200 yuan/mt from a week ago to 18,500 yuan/mt as of last Friday.

Zinc ingot inventories across seven major Chinese markets totalled 103,700 mt as of May 26, down 10,300 mt from May 22 and 13,200 mt from May 19.

SHANGHAI, May 25 (SMM) – The most-traded DCE 2309 iron ore contract closed down 2.23% at 681 yuan/mt today.

The most-traded SHFE 2306 aluminium contract opened at 18,125 yuan/mt overnight, with its low and high at 18,030 yuan/mt and 18,160 yuan/mt before closing at 18,115 yuan/mt, down 30 yuan/mt or 0.17%.

LME zinc opened at $2,422.5/mt on Tuesday and went down before closing at $2,354/mt, down $71.5/mt or 2.95%.

SHANGHAI, May 22 (SMM) - The US macro front is full of uncertainties.

SHANGHAI, May 22 (SMM) - Co3O4 prices went up last week.

LME copper prices closed at $8,275/mt last evening, up 0.39%. Trading volume was 14,000 lots and open interest stood at 256,000 lots. The most active SHFE 2306 copper contract finished at 65,060 yuan/mt overnight, up 0.35%. Trading volume was 34,000 lots and open interest stood at 184,000 lots.

SHANGHAI, May 15 (SMM) - The futures technical indicators suggest that the most-traded SHFE aluminium contract will fluctuate downwards or bottom out slightly this week.

SHANGHAI, May 15 (SMM) - The prices of cobalt intermediate products fell slightly last week.