Daily copper dispatches from Alchemist G. G. Wilkins — the day’s copper news, tied to the red metal’s long history: the copper still that makes good whiskey, the wire that lights the world, and the honest trade of the scrap yard.
Step close to the assayer's window, friends, and read the ticker with me. The good folk at IndexBox report this eighteenth of June, year of our Lord 2026, that strongcopper and the…
Step closer, friends, and let an old showman read the day's entrails for you. The wire services — that IndexBox crowd, sober as Sunday deacons — declare on this eighteenth of June,…
Permit me a moment of satisfaction, friends, for the ledger smiles upon us. The wires from IndexBox carry word that on this fifteenth of June, in the year 1926 — forgive an old cou…
Come close to the counter, friend, and mind the bear — he's chained, mostly. The wires from the East rattle in this morning with word from IndexBox that the scrapyards of China hav…
Step closer, friends, and mind the bear — for word comes today from the great workshops of the East. emIndexBox/em reports that Chinese scrap prices have gone every which way at on…
I read this morning's bulletin out of Shanghai — that the copper scrap trade shows emregional divergence/em, prices swaying this way and that, with inspectors prowling the yards in…
Step closer, friends, and read the day's accounting. The IndexBox men report copper strongrisen/strong, aluminum gone soft, and steel and stainless lying flat as a tavern floor at…
Step close, friends, and let me read you the day's auspices. From the bourse at London comes word that copper prices emfluctuate at the highs/em — hovering up where the air is thin…
Well now — the learned forecasters at Market Research Future have set their spyglass to the year of our Lord strong2035/strong and pronounced the copper scrap market a thing of siz…
Step up, friends, and witness the figure of the day: strong$5.47 the pound for #1 Bare Bright/strong, and the market gone up a tidy six-tenths of one percent. SMM Metal posts the n…
Step closer, friends, and mind the heat of the furnace. The Shanghai Metals Market has rung its bell across the wide ocean, posting the price of scrap copper as men in two hemisphe…
Step close to the rail, friends, for the ticker has spoken and I, G. G. Wilkins, am pleased to read it aloud. IndexBox tells us this seventeenth of June that copper has stronggaine…
So word arrives from across the water that copper scrap has slipped, the European recyclers reporting a softer tone in their yards on the back of a weaker exchange in London. I rea…
So the wire-runners at IndexBox tell us copper emdipped/em in their June reckoning, while aluminum and steel sat like sleepy hounds on the porch. And yet here on our own ledger the…