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LiveWire Economics Blog - August 31, 2025 10:53
Copper Finds Its Footing as Market Sentiment Improves
Copper snapped back a bit this week, which caught some attention. Copper prices climbed over 1% and settled around $4.61 per pound by late Thursday. That’s a decent recovery from where things stood earlier in August, when copper drifted under $4.55. It’s still well below this year’s peak, but not scraping the bottom either. There […]
Copper Prices Drift in the Wake of a Surprise Tariff Shock
Copper had a volatile week. Futures climbed early in the week, peeking around $5.84 per pound before easing back to settle around $5.79 on Friday. That’s still near the upper end of its 52‑week range and sellers seemed hesitant given the backdrop of trade headlines and inventory shifts. The big story was a surprise announcement […]
Gold and Copper Prices Dip Amid Trade Turbulence and Tariff Worries
As the week drew to a close the price of gold took a nosedive following an initial surge to unprecedented peaks earlier in the week; meanwhile the price of silver also took a sharp fall. Following the revelations by U.S President Donald Trump with the imposition of hefty trade tariffs directed at a wide array […]
Copper Prices Hit New Heights Amid Global Trade Tensions
On Thursday copper prices climbed to unprecedented levels, climbing past $10,000 per tonne. The main reason for this sharp increase is linked to trade disruptions caused by the aggressive tariff policies of US President Donald Trump. In the previous month it was President Trump who gave the order to the Commerce Department to take a […]
Copper Prices Sliding On Chinese Slowdown Concerns
Major concerns were raised on Monday on continued demand from China which sent the copper price and main industrial metals sliding yesterday. Covid continues to be a pest in China, with lockdowns in major cities and ports suffering backlogs of unloading ships. After China promised more support to revive an economy which has been ravaged […]
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