Copper Weekly

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 conversat

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

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 Switzer

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 Albe

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 d

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 q

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, t

LME Stocks Rise and Fall, Chile's Mining Picture Assessed by Supply Analyst Carlos Piñeiro

Copper Weekly returns for episode thirteen. This week we are joined by Carlos Piñeiro a principal supply analyst at Benchmark, based in Chile. Albert and Carlos talk abou

A Third Week of Record Highs; LME Tightness Bites

Copper Weekly returns for episode twelve, marking a third consecutive week of all-time highs. But this time the story isn't just about price, it's about shape.

LME Copper Hits New Records as Treatment Charges Collapse

Copper Weekly is back for episode eleven, and the headlines write themselves: the LME cash price has now spent six consecutive days above $14,000/t, its longest run at th

Copper Nears All-Time Highs as US Imports Surge

Benchmark's Copper Weekly is back for episode ten. Mike and Albert unpack a week of standout price action, record-breaking US import flows, and a mining equities pic

Call to Arms or Cause for Alarm? Codelco's Scott Crooks on the Supply Gap

Copper Weekly returns for episode nine — and this week the show does something different. For the first time, Mike and Albert are joined by a special guest: Scott Crooks,

Falling Stocks, Rising Prices and a Return to Fundamentals?

Copper Weekly returns for episode eight — Mike and Albert unpack a week where copper prices pushed to their highest since early June. The big theme? For once, the market

Chile’s Production Challenges Continue: Supply Analyst Ivan Llancas Joins to Discuss Chile's Mining Industry

Copper Weekly returns for episode seven — This week, we are joined by Ivan Llancas, senior supply analyst, based in Chile. Albert and Ivan discuss the challenges facing m

Antofagasta, Spot-Linked Pricing and the Benchmark Shake-Up

Copper Weekly returns for episode six — and while the US tariff saga rumbles quietly in the background, the real focus this week is a potential structural shift that coul

Silence on Section 232: Reading Between the Lines

Copper Weekly is back for episode five — and this one was meant to be the big tariff reveal. Mike and Albert deliberately delayed recording to Wednesday July 1st to captu

The End of the Benchmark? Antofagasta Could Shake the Concentrate Market

Benchmark's Copper Weekly returns for episode four — and after last week's peace deal optimism, the mood has shifted once again. Fresh tensions over the weekend

Acid, Arbitrage and What the Iran Deal Means for Copper

Benchmark's Copper Weekly is back for episode three — and this week there is one story that dominates the conversation above all else. The Trump-Iran peace announcem

Noise or Signal? Reading Copper's Latest Moves

Benchmark's Copper Weekly is back for episode two — and with host Mike Finch holding the fort in London and analyst Albert reporting live from Washington DC, this we

State of Copper: The Structural Shifts Redefining the Market

Welcome to Copper Weekly – Benchmark's brand-new podcast cutting through the noise of global copper markets. In this inaugural episode, host Mike Finch and Copper An