Metals Market Digest — 18 June 2026

🧱 LME Base Metals

• US Dollar Pulls Back, Metals Broadly Fall; Lithium Carbonate Drops Nearly 5%; LME and SHFE Tin, Platinum and NY Silver, Coking Coal and Coke Lead Declines [SMM Midday Review] - Shanghai Metals Market
• CHART: Copper price, aluminum ‘black hole’ fears lift LME base metals index to record high - Mining.com
• LME base metals tumble on renewed Iran tensions, U.S. rate hike expectations (AA:NYSE) - Seeking Alpha
• Base Metals LME Midday Snapshot Report - StoneX
• LME traders were pricing the wrong metal supply crisis - Reuters

🥇 Precious Metals

• Silver price forecast: $60 price risk before the next move higher - KITCO
• Precious Metals News: Gold, Silver, PGMs Prices Slide as Investors Brace for Fed Meeting - Investing News Network
• Silver Price Today | Silver Spot Price Charts - SD Bullion
• Silver Price Today: Silver Rises, Tracking Broader Precious Metals Strength - CryptoRank
• Gold Price Tumbles Rs 4,800, Silver Drops Rs 5,300 - Rediff MoneyWiz

📈 Metals Pricing & Other Markets

• World Metals - Market Analysis, Forecast, Size, Trends and Insights - IndexBox
• Monetary Metals: Redefining the Metals Market - ACCESS Newswire
• Trinity One Metals Positions Silver-1 & Victory Projects for Growth in Strong Precious Metals Market - Streetwise Reports
• DRC’s Export Controls Are Reshaping the Battery Metals Market - Yahoo Finance
• Survival and sustainability: Navigating the realities facing the metals market - ABB