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
• LME traders were pricing the wrong metal supply crisis - Reuters
• Base Metals LME Midday Snapshot Report - StoneX

🥇 Precious Metals

• Silver price forecast: $60 price risk before the next move higher - KITCO
• Silver Price Today | Silver Spot Price Charts - SD Bullion
• Silver Price Today: Silver Rises, Tracking Broader Precious Metals Strength - CryptoRank
• Precious Metals Analysis: Gold, Silver, Platinum, Palladium Outlook by CPM Group - News and Statistics - IndexBox
• Gold forecast and tracker: Here’s where prices could land in 2026 - Yahoo Finance

📈 Metals Pricing & Other Markets

• Regency Silver’s Dios Padre Drilling Success Positions Company in Strong Precious Metals Market - Streetwise Reports
• Matrixdock Publishes Research on the Impact of Tokenization on the Precious Metals Market in SBMA’s Crucible - KuCoin
• Monetary Metals: Redefining the Metals Market - ACCESS Newswire
• DRC’s Export Controls Are Reshaping the Battery Metals Market - Yahoo Finance
• Survival and sustainability: Navigating the realities facing the metals market - ABB