Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Lead Advances in London as Stockpiles Decline; Tin Gains to 18-Year High

(Bloomberg) -- Lead advanced the most in more than
a month in London as the amount of available metal dropped,
fueling speculation supply will fall short of demand. Tin
climbed to the highest since 1989 and nickel had its biggest
rise in six weeks.

Inventories of lead tracked by the London Metal Exchange,
or LME, declined 3.7 percent to 37,575 tons, the exchange said
today in a daily report. That's the biggest daily drop since
Nov. 30. Prices for the metal, used mostly in car batteries,
jumped 86 percent this year and outpaced other industrial metals
as supplies from Australia were disrupted and demand improved.


Read more at Bloomberg Commodities News

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