Home / Metal News / [Al] CBI Daily Review - 2009/5/18 Aluminum Market

[Al] CBI Daily Review - 2009/5/18 Aluminum Market

iconMay 18, 2009 00:00

SHANGHAI, May 18 (CBI China) -- Last Friday, LME aluminum price fell slightly, today SHFE aluminum price opened at low and then moved upward following other metal prices trend. The position of copper and zinc experienced significant increases, while aluminum position continued to decline. The weak trading volumes and weak price trend indicated the aluminum price lacked directions, so aluminum price is expected to fluctuate in the short term.

SHFE Market

 

Aluminum – Spot Month

RMB/USD

SHFE Close

Settlement

Weighted Ave.

May 15th

12,850

12,800

12,946

1:6.8247

May 18th

12,740

12,725

12,729

1:6.8267

 

 

Aluminum – 3mth

Shanghai Spot

A00 Aluminum Ingot

SHFE Close

Settlement

Weighted Ave.

May 15th

12,760

12,770

12,739

12,885

May 18th 

12,705

12,670

12,671

12,840

 

Copyright ? 2009, CBI (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved.

None of this material may be used for any commercial or public use in any form or means, without the prior written consent of CBI China. For reproduction issue, please contact us by email: metalresearch@cbichina.com or tel:86-21-51550040

Data Source Statement: Except for publicly available information, all other data are processed by SMM based on publicly available information, market exchanges, and relying on SMM's internal database model, for reference only and do not constitute decision-making recommendations.

For queries, please contact Lemon Zhao at lemonzhao@smm.cn

For more information on how to access our research reports, please email service.en@smm.cn