Metals Market Digest — 20 August 2026
🧱 LME Base Metals
- US Dollar Plunged, Metals Broadly Rose, LME Nickel Surged over 2%, Gold and Silver Rallied Sharply, and NY Gold Neared $4,600 [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
- LME Lens: US debt intervention spurs base metals - Mining News Net
- LME base metals tumble on renewed Iran tensions, U.S. rate hike expectations (AA:NYSE) - Seeking Alpha
🥇 Precious Metals
- Silver Futures Jump: US Treasury Boosts Precious Metals - Rediff MoneyWiz
- Where gold price is headed next as Fed rate hike and inflation odds change direction - CNBC
- Wells Fargo Revises Gold Price Target for Remainder of 2026 - Margin Guidance - Vinanet
- 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
📈 Metals Pricing & Other Markets
- Germany Rare Earth Metals Market Size, Share,Trends, Growth Analysis Report, 2030 - MarketsandMarkets
- 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
- 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