The metals industry has spent weeks debating what to do about supplies from Russia, which is a major producer of copper, nickel, aluminum and palladium.
While there's been no suggestion of wrongdoing in this month’s squeeze, the LME has a rich history of wild price moves when markets are over- or undersupplied.
A group of about 2,000 Polish miners has traveled to Luxembourg to protest against the decision of the European Court of Justice to halt production at their lignite mine.
The London copper contract has been sucked into a stocks vacuum after the amount of available metal in warehouse system sank to the lowest since 1974, writes Andy Home.