Copper Rises As Expectations Grow for Further Assistive Action From China

In anticipation of more robust market-supporting policies from China, copper prices fell -0.84% Wednesday, closing at 715.95. The People’s Bank of China implemented measures to stimulate economic growth, including lowering the reserve requirement ratio for financial institutions and executing 100 billion yuan in 14-day reverse repos. In an effort to promote economic expansion, these steps…

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Aluminium Prices Fell As Uncertainty Persisted Regarding China’s Economy

Aluminium saw a -1.04% decrease yesterday, closing at 199.6, as worries over China’s economic growth continued. Uncertainty regarding the course of the Chinese economy’s growth was increased when the official PMI data showed that industrial activity had contracted for the fourth consecutive month. Investors were let down by the absence of any convincing signs of…

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Crude oil prices have remained relatively stable while the United States’ strategic trip to the Middle East is under consideration

Early on Tuesday, as market players evaluated U.S. Secretary of State travel to the Middle East to discuss a ceasefire offer in the region, oil prices showed minimal movement. On Monday, he met the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia. In anticipation of an Israeli attack on Rafah, a border city where over half of…

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The OPEC+ committee ‘closely assesses’ the market but makes no recommendations on oil quotas

A significant OPEC+ advisory group remained silent on production policy on February 1, thereby maintaining the present output restrictions. Under the co-chair ship of Saudi Arabia and Russia, the Joint Ministerial Monitoring Committee declared that it would “continue to closely assess market conditions” and that the 22-member producer coalition was prepared to modify output levels…

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