{"id":1106419,"date":"2019-03-20T14:25:47","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T14:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mining.com\/?p=977355"},"modified":"2019-03-20T14:25:47","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T14:25:47","slug":"zinc-price-builds-on-2019-rally-as-stocks-reach-just-2-days-consumption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1106419","title":{"rendered":"Zinc price builds on 2019 rally as stocks reach just 2 days consumption"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zinc prices climbed to $2,845 a tonne on Wednesday after data showed LME warehouses now hold little over 58,000 tonnes of the metal; less than two days\u2019 worth of global consumption.<\/p>\n

Inventories are down 55% this year and is on course to reach levels last seen in 1990. Zinc stocks peaked in 2012 at the height of the commodities boom reaching 1.2 million tonnes.<\/p>\n

Inventories held by the Shanghai Futures Exchange are more plentiful, but low inventories of many metals in LME-registered warehouses are helping to bolster prices despite weak economic data from top metals consumer China, Reuters reports:<\/p>\n

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\n\u201cThe exchange stocks being at very low levels are understandably keeping many market participants on edge about the outlook when there has been speculation that a (US-China) trade deal is near,\u201d Ross Strachan, senior commodities economist at Capital Economics in London told Reuters.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Last year China imported 713,000 tonnes of zinc \u2013 the second consecutive year of record imports.<\/p>\n

Today’s price for zinc, used mainly to galvanize steel, compares to an all-time high of $4,580 struck in November 2006. During the depth of the global financial crisis zinc came close to falling into triple digits.<\/p>\n

\"Zinc<\/p>\n

Source: Reuters<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Inventories are down 55% this year and is on course to reach levels last seen in 1990. <\/p>\n

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