Metals Market Digest — 13 August 2026
🧱 LME Base Metals
- LME base metals up as US-Iran peace talks resume - Fastmarkets
- 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
- Metals broadly advanced, with lithium carbonate up nearly 3%, and LME and SHFE tin, coking coal and coke, COMEX and SHFE silver, etc. up over 1% [SMM Midday Review] - Shanghai Metals Market
- CHART: Copper price, aluminum ‘black hole’ fears lift LME base metals index to record high - Mining.com
🥇 Precious Metals
- Where gold price is headed next as Fed rate hike and inflation odds change direction - CNBC
- Gold Price Forecast: July Marked a Major Bottom — Miners Set to Outperform - FXEmpire
- Silver Price Today | Silver Spot Price Charts - SD Bullion
- Where will silver and gold prices head this August? Experts weigh in - CBS News
- Precious metals should benefit from falling oil, as gold market continues shift toward Asia – Heraeus - KITCO
📈 Metals Pricing & Other Markets
- The Commodity Markets Outlook in eight charts - World Bank Blogs
- 4 ways tariffs and geopolitics are impacting commodity markets - Waste Dive
- Gold Surges, Silver Sinks: Why the Fed’s Hawkish Pause Is Splitting the Precious Metals Market - NAI500
- Chinese firms look to strike gold in a volatile global metals market - South China Morning Post
- LBMA Precious Metals Market Report: Q2 2026 - LBMA