Aluminum rally is ‘overdone’ as supply returns


Prices should revert to an earlier trading range of US$2,100 to US$2,400 per tonne for commodity-grade aluminium over the next six months. — Bloomberg

SINGAPORE: Aluminium prices should decline by at least 6% over the next six months as supply returns to the market and high interest rates continue to crimp manufacturing demand, according to an analyst from Trafigura Group, one of the biggest traders of the metal.

“We’re looking at a very grim demand picture right now,” metals analyst Henry Van said at the CRU World Aluminium Conference in London on Wednesday.

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