Metals Market Digest — 4 May 2026

🧱 LME Base Metals

• CHART: Copper price, aluminum ‘black hole’ fears lift LME base metals index to record high - Mining.com
• Base Metals LME Midday Snapshot Report - stonex.com
• US Fed’s Biggest Disagreement in 34 Years, Crude Oil Surged, Base Metals Fell Across the Board, LME Aluminum, SHFE Nickel, and Silver Led Declines [Overnight Market] - Shanghai Metals Market
• LME traders were pricing the wrong metal supply crisis - Reuters
• Base metals face supply strains, carbon costs and tariff headwinds: LME Week 2025 - Fastmarkets

🥇 Precious Metals

• Precious Metals News: Gold, Silver, PGMs React to New Reality of Protracted War - Investing News Network
• Silver Price Today | Silver Spot Price Charts - SD Bullion
• Why are ⁠gold and silver prices up today, and will precious metals continue to rise or fall again? Full ma - The Economic Times
• Precious Metal Price Forecasts 2026: Gold, Silver Platinum and Palladium - BullionVault
• Gold Price Falls. There’s a Path Toward $6,000 But It’s Fraught With Danger. - Barron’s

📈 Metals Pricing & Other Markets

• The Commodity Markets Outlook in eight charts - World Bank Blogs
• LBMA Precious Metals Market Report: Q1 2026 - LBMA
• Breaking: The Metals Market – Gold (XAU/USD) and Silver (XAG/USD) flash crash - marketpulse.com
• Gold, silver, copper surge as explosive rally sweeps over metals market - Yahoo Finance
• Progress continues in low-carbon metals market, even as premiums remain difficult to achieve: comment - EUROMETAL