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Copper sits at the heart of the energy transition, yet its market still trades on old and new fundamentals colliding. Copper Weekly, a Benchmark Podcast, cuts through the noise in 10–15 minutes, giving you the key moves, the real drivers, and the risks ahead.Hosted by Michael Finch, Head of Strategic Initiatives, and Albert Mackenzie, Copper Analyst & Market Reporter, each episode breaks down the week’s price action and discusses the latest pressing developments shaping this ever-evolving market. Drawing on Benchmark’s supply and demand expertise, with regular appearances from Piotr Kulas (Lead Supply Analyst) and Daan De Jonge (Lead Demand Analyst), among numerous guest speakers, the show connects short-term market moves with longer-term structural shifts in copper.Whether you trade copper, produce it, consume it, or are tracking the metal that underpins electrification and decarbonisation, Copper Weekly gives y
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- 1 weeks ago38 min
LME Week 2026 Wrap: Uncertainty Built on Uncertainty
Copper Weekly returns from the tail end of LME Week. In summary; plenty of good gossip, but fewer answers than usual. With US tariffs and the concentrate benchmark both unresolved, Mike and Albert unpack why the market is waiting for someone else to move first. In this episode: A Market Waiting to Decide - Albert explains why this LME Week felt unusually inconclusive. The key decisions on US tariffs and annual treatment charges are still ahead, European buyers are reluctant to commit tonnage,...
- 2 weeks ago50 min
LME Week 2026 Preview: Five Key Themes Shaping the Copper Market
Copper Weekly returns with a longer-than-usual pre-LME Week special. Mike and Albert work through the five themes dominating meetings in London and set to shape conversations across LME Week: record-low treatment charges, European cathode premiums, US tariff uncertainty, long-term supply gap fears, and the question hanging over every meeting, why copper is still so expensive. In this episode: Treatment Charges in Free Fall - Spot TCs have dropped to around minus $240/t, with some deals now do...
- 3 weeks ago22 min
Cobre Panama, Chile Strikes and China's Concentrate Slowdown
Copper Weekly returns with a different line-up. With Mike away, Albert is joined by Carlos Pineiro, Benchmark's supply analyst, dialling in from Santiago. It's a supply-heavy week: Cobre Panama's government report, a slowdown in Chinese concentrate imports, and strike votes at two of Chile's biggest mines. In this episode: Lessons from Geneva. Albert reports back from the copper seminar, where interest outstripped the room. The conversation kept coming back to working capital. High prices ben...
- Sep 30, 202619 min
China Stocks Hit Multi-Year Lows Ahead of Golden Week
Copper Weekly returns for episode eighteen, recorded on the road from Geneva as Albert wraps up a week of smelter visits and financial meetings across Austria and Switzerland. Prices held relatively firm despite some pressure, with China's approach to Golden Week, a fast-growing but opaque Russian concentrate story, and rising strike tensions in Chile all in focus. In this episode: Steady Prices Ahead of Golden Week — With stocks in China at their lowest since January 2024 and import premiums...
- Sep 22, 202614 min
China Demand Returns: Copper Rushes Back Towards Record Highs
Copper Weekly returns for episode seventeen, with copper clawing back much of the ground it lost the week before and pushing back towards its all-time high. Mike and Albert dig into China's role in the recovery, question whether a widely reported mine supply contraction really holds up, and look ahead to a potentially pivotal week of US-China diplomacy. In this episode: China Leads the Bounce — Import premiums into China hit a four-year high, with nearly 30,000 tonnes of LME stock cancelled i...
- Sep 15, 202619 min
Tariff Delay Talk Sends Copper Prices Lower
Copper Weekly is back for episode sixteen, and after months of near-relentless record highs, the market finally took a breather. Mike and Albert unpack a sharp pullback driven by tariff-delay speculation, hotter US inflation data, and a dollar rally, before digging into why the underlying story of an artificial, US-driven tightness remains fully intact. In this episode: Why Prices Fell — A Reuters report suggesting US copper tariffs could be pushed back until after the November midterms, comb...
- Sep 8, 202618 min
Copper's Record Rally: Is It Actually Justified?
Copper Weekly returns for episode fifteen, with the LME three-month price notching yet another all-time high. But this week Albert takes a step back and asks the harder question: is any of this actually justified? A candid, somewhat blunt discussion follows on frothy sentiment, record US imports, and why H1 production disruptions were already priced in long before the headlines caught up. In this episode: Another Record, But Why? — With copper up over 50% since November, Albert makes the case...
- Sep 2, 202621 min
A Calm Between Two Storms as Volatility Looms
Copper Weekly is back for episode fourteen, with Mike returning fresh from leave to a market that, on the surface, has been trading quietly sideways. Beneath that calm, though, Albert digs into a fascinating stock picture, a wider look across the base metals complex, and a candid warning about volatility ahead. In this episode: Stocks in the Wrong Place — LME on-warrant material is heavily concentrated in Asia, yet total exchange stocks tell a very different story once you factor in the US, w...
About Copper Weekly
Copper sits at the heart of the energy transition, yet its market still trades on old and new fundamentals colliding. Copper Weekly, a Benchmark Podcast, cuts through the noise in 10–15 minutes, giving you the key moves, the real drivers, and the risks ahead.Hosted by Michael Finch, Head of Strategic Initiatives, and Albert Mackenzie, Copper Analyst & Market Reporter, each episode breaks down the week’s price action and discusses the latest pressing developments shaping this ever-evolving market. Drawing on Benchmark’s supply and demand expertise, with regular appearances from Piotr Kulas (Lead Supply Analyst) and Daan De Jonge (Lead Demand Analyst), among numerous guest speakers, the show connects short-term market moves with longer-term structural shifts in copper.Whether you trade copper, produce it, consume it, or are tracking the metal that underpins electrification and decarbonisation, Copper Weekly gives y
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