With rising commodity prices and a drop in production costs setting the stage for blowout profits, copper producers are poised for their best year in over a decade.

Demand for thermal and metallurgical coal should rise to 7,432 million tonnes in 2021, from 7,243 million tonnes this year, according to the International Energy Agency.

It’s been a tumultuous year for industrial metal markets, both the worst of times and the best of times.

Industrial metals are well on their way to being among the top performers of 2020.

Spot treatment charges in China are languishing at their lowest level in eight years.

CISA recently called on regulators in China to investigate a spike in prices on the Dalian Commodity Exchange, saying there were signs speculators had piled in.