Global copper short-term outlook November 2018
*Please note that this report only includes an Excel data file if this is indicated in "What's included" below
Report summary
Table of contents
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Executive summary
- Copper key forecasts
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Supply-demand balances
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Market developments
- Price forecasts and world quarterly supply/demand balance - (kt)
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Market developments
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Demand
- Japan
- USA
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Europe – France, Greece, Spain and Sweden
- Production and shipments of copper wire rod and copper semis - kt
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Supply
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Concentrate markets
- Global copper-in-concentrate stock changes - (kt Cu)
- Blister market RCs
- Global mine production - breakdown by product type (kt copper in concentrate & leach output)
- Global copper refined consumption - (kt)
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Concentrate markets
Tables and charts
This report includes 24 images and tables including:
- Executive summary: Table 1
- LME 3-month price and cash to 3-month spread
- SHFE front month vs LME cash prices
- 2015 split of Chinese copper imports
- 2018 split of Chinese copper imports
- Japanese brass mill shipments
- Japanese wire and cable shipments
- US wire rod imports are now exceeding exports
- French, Greek, Spanish and Swedish refined copper consumption
- Refined copper consumption comparison against the Rest of Europe
- Concentrate market TCRCs
- Supply-demand balances: Table 1
- Demand: Table 1
- Global quarterly refined copper consumption - kt
- Supply: Table 2
- Supply: Table 3
- Supply: Table 4
- Supply: Table 5
- Supply: Table 6
- Supply: Table 7
- Supply: Table 8
- Supply: Table 9
- Supply: Table 10
- Supply: Table 11
What's included
This report contains:
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