Commodity Market Report
Global copper short-term outlook January 2021
Report summary
Since hitting a peak early on in January, copper prices have come under pressure through the month as a risk off tone has now set in. Despite a consistent decline in visible exchange stocks, rising virus cases and a tightening in Chinese credit availability amid concerns about a property bubble point to an increasingly cloudier outlook for demand this year. Despite robust mine supply growth in 2021, the recovery in demand will keep the market finely balanced and we expect prices to rise on an average annual basis. Nevertheless, we maintain our view that the market is headed for a period of oversupply from 2022 following several years of above average mine supply growth. Prices should yield to the surplus that are anticipated to emerge in the refined market.
Table of contents
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Market developments
- Japan
- Poland
- Russia
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Concentrate markets
- China concentrate markets
- Blister/anode and scrap markets
- Production news
- Project development
- Corporate activity
Tables and charts
This report includes 25 images and tables including:
- LME cash price and 3-month spread ($/t)
- Regional exchange stocks (kt)
- Regional exchange stocks - monthly changes (kt)
- Copper market balance and prices
- Copper prices and stocks in days of consumption
- Price forecasts and world quarterly supply/demand balance (kt)
- Concentrate market TCRCs
- Global copper-in-concentrate stock changes (kt Cu)
- IP index for key end-use sectors (seasonally adjusted, 2015 = 100)
- IP index (seasonally adjusted, 2015=100)
- Auto sector production and sales
- Polish monthly copper and copper alloy semis production
- Index of Industrial production (2018=100)
- Manufacturing PMI
- Production and shipments of copper wire rod and copper semis - kt
- Global quarterly refined copper consumption - kt
- Blister market RC
- Global mine production - breakdown by product type (kt copper in concentrate & leach output)
- Global copper refined consumption (kt)
- Global copper mine production (kt copper in concentrate & leach output)
- Global copper smelter production (kt)
- Global copper refinery production (kt)
- Copper stocks
- Copper prices and premia
- Copper supply/demand balance global summary (kt)
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