Metals Market Digest — 19 April 2026

🧱 LME Base Metals

• Base Metals LME Midday Snapshot Report - stonex.com
• CHART: Copper price, aluminum ‘black hole’ fears lift LME base metals index to record high - Mining.com
• LME traders were pricing the wrong metal supply crisis - Reuters
• Crude Oil Plunged, US Dollar Fell for Three Consecutive Weeks, Metals Generally Rose, LME Aluminum and SHFE Nickel Dropped Over 2%, Copper and Silver Posted Four-Week Winning Streak [Overnight Market] - Shanghai Metals Market
• Base metals face supply strains, carbon costs and tariff headwinds: LME Week 2025 - Fastmarkets

🥇 Precious Metals

• Precious Metals Price Update: Gold, Silver, PGMs Stage Relief Rally on Iran Peace Deal Hopes - Investing News Network
• Silver Price Today | Silver Spot Price Charts - SD Bullion
• Why are gold and silver prices down today, and will precious metals continue to drop or rise again? Analys - The Economic Times
• Silver Price Today Surges: Bitcoin World Data Reveals Significant Precious Metals Momentum - CryptoRank
• Gold Price Falls. There’s a Path Toward $6,000 But It’s Fraught With Danger. - Barron’s

📈 Metals Pricing & Other Markets

• Rising Industrial Demand Shifts Precious Metals Market Balance - stonex.com
• Kazakhstan strengthens position in commodity markets amid rising metal prices - Qazinform
• No precious metals market report on Friday, April 3 - Reuters
• How the Iran war is reshaping commodity markets in 2026 - Oxford Economics
• The Commodity Markets Outlook in eight charts - World Bank Blogs