Global lead short-term outlook January 2023
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Report summary
Table of contents
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Prices
- Global
- Europe
- China
- India
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North America
- Concentrate market
- Project development
- Mines news
- Corporate Activity
- Smelter news
Tables and charts
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- Lead returns to pack in second half of month
- Backwardation unwinds and resets
- Seasonal Shanghai stock build getting underway
- Refined lead premia and scrap prices
- Price forecasts and global quarterly supply/demand balances (kt)
- Quarterly consumption
- Spot TCs remain low despite the arbitrage remaining unfavourable for importing concentrate to China
- Concentrate market TCs
- Acid prices are not in a position to insulate smelters from a big cut in contract TCs in 2023
- Up modestly year on year, imports in late 2022 were also up significantly from two years earlier
- Lead mine capability, market adjustment and production (kt Pb)
- Global refined lead consumption (kt Pb)
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