Metals Market Digest — 19 August 2026
🧱 LME Base Metals
- Base Metals Broadly Fall, Lithium Carbonate, Platinum and Palladium Down Over 2%, SHFE Copper, Zinc, and Tin Among Top Decliners, SHFE Silver Leads Losses [SMM Midday Review] - Shanghai Metals Market
- LME Lens: Bond sell-off and copper warehouse influx sends base metals lower - Mining News Net
- LME base metals up as US-Iran peace talks resume - Fastmarkets
- LME metals whipsawed by war and peace in first half of 2026 - Reuters
- Gold, Silver, Copper All Fall, Metals Broadly Decline, LME Copper, Aluminum, Zinc, Tin Down Over 1%, NY Silver Drops Over 4%, Coking Coal and Coke Rise Over 2% [Overnight Market] - Shanghai Metals Market
🥇 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
- Where will silver and gold prices head this August? Experts weigh in - CBS News
- Boom and bust of the recent silver and gold rush: the role of leveraged retail investors - Bank for International Settlements
- Local coin shops ride out wild swings in gold and silver prices - jsonline.com
📈 Metals Pricing & Other Markets
- International Battery Metals’ Market Cap Drops To CA$40m Leaving Insiders With Losses - simplywall.st
- 4 ways tariffs and geopolitics are impacting commodity markets - Waste Dive
- Green Bridge Metals: Market Stays Cold Despite Minnesota Drilling Momentum - AD HOC NEWS
- Precious metals market takes off again, while Japanese stocks and the Nasdaq show signs of movement – Market Review from August 10 to 12 - Moomoo
- Chinese firms look to strike gold in a volatile global metals market - South China Morning Post