Aluminum Price

Aluminum Price Seasonality Is Real, and Most Buyers Don’t Build It Into Their Procurement Timing

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Aluminum Price Seasonality Is Real, and Most Buyers Don't Build It Into Their Procurement Timing

Commodity price seasonality gets discussed frequently for agricultural commodities, where the harvest cycle creates obvious supply-side patterns, but less often for metals. Aluminum does exhibit seasonal price tendencies that are consistent enough to be worth understanding as a background factor in procurement planning, even if they’re not so dominant that they override other market signals…

LME Aluminum Price Movements Don’t Tell the Whole Story for Wire Rod Buyers

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LME Aluminum Price Movements Don't Tell the Whole Story for Wire Rod Buyers

The London Metal Exchange aluminum price is the reference point that almost everyone in the aluminum wire industry uses when discussing material costs, and for good reason — it’s transparent, continuously updated, and represents the closest thing the market has to a universal benchmark. But buyers who treat LME as the complete picture of what…