Metals Market Digest — 18 August 2026
🧱 LME Base Metals
- Weaker Dollar, Crude Oil Rose for Two Straight Sessions; Most Base Metals Fell, SHFE Tin Down Over 1%, UBS Up Over 1% [Overnight Market] - Shanghai Metals Market
- LME base metals up as US-Iran peace talks resume - Fastmarkets
- LME metals whipsawed by war and peace in first half of 2026 - Reuters
- Base Metals Fell Broadly; SHFE Copper, SHFE Tin, NY Silver, and Polysilicon Dropped More Than 1%, While Ferrous Metals Mostly Rose [SMM Midday Commentary] - Shanghai Metals Market
- LME base metals tumble on renewed Iran tensions, U.S. rate hike expectations (AA:NYSE) - Seeking Alpha
🥇 Precious Metals
- Silver Price Today | Silver Spot Price Charts - SD Bullion
- Where gold price is headed next as Fed rate hike and inflation odds change direction - CNBC
- Gold Price Rally August 2026: Why Gold Hit $4,400 on Cooling CPI Data - Intellectia AI
- Where will silver and gold prices head this August? Experts weigh in - CBS News
- Central Bank of Armenia: exchange rates and prices of precious metals - 17-08-26 - Armenpress
📈 Metals Pricing & Other Markets
- International Battery Metals’ Market Cap Drops To CA$40m Leaving Insiders With Losses - simplywall.st
- Precious metals market takes off again, while Japanese stocks and the Nasdaq show signs of movement – Market Review from August 10 to 12 - Moomoo
- 4 ways tariffs and geopolitics are impacting commodity markets - Waste Dive
- Chinese firms look to strike gold in a volatile global metals market - South China Morning Post
- Survival and sustainability: Navigating the realities facing the metals market - ABB