Metals Market Digest — 18 May 2026
🧱 LME Base Metals
- What Was the Highest Price for Copper? - Investing News Network
- LME base metals prices drift lower; geopolitical stress weighs on metal markets - BigMint
- Crude Oil Pulled Back, Base Metals Generally Rose; SHFE Copper, SHFE Zinc, LME Tin, and COMEX Silver Up Over 1%; Lithium Carbonate Down Over 3% [SMM Midday Review] - Shanghai Metals Market
- CHART: Copper price, aluminum ‘black hole’ fears lift LME base metals index to record high - Mining.com
- Base Metals LME Midday Snapshot Report - StoneX
🥇 Precious Metals
- Precious Metals News: Silver and Platinum Prices Decouple from Gold - Investing News Network
- Precious Metal Price Forecasts 2026: Gold, Silver Platinum and Palladium - BullionVault
- Silver Price Today | Silver Spot Price Charts - SD Bullion
- Why are gold and silver prices down today, and will precious metals decline or rise again in near future? - The Economic Times
- The Relative Value Prospects of Precious Metals in 2026 - CME Group
📈 Metals Pricing & Other Markets
- Precious Metals Market Size to Surpass USD 342.7 Billion by 2034 | With a 4.42% CAGR - openPR.com
- The Commodity Markets Outlook in eight charts - World Bank Blogs
- Silver squeeze ahead of Diwali exposes cracks in India’s precious metals market, policy-making - MSN
- Rare Earth Metals Market Trends and Analysis by Application, Vertical, Region, and Segment Forecast to 2030 - EIN News
- Nexans S.A. stock (FR0000044448): Featured in recycled metals market growth forecast - AD HOC NEWS