LME copper rises $3 to $14,478/t; tin and cobalt fall

The dispersion is the story: copper's marginal gain looks less like conviction than a market holding its ground while tin and cobalt absorb the session's selling. The size of those declines against copper's near-flat close suggests the pressure is concentrated in the smaller, more thinly traded metals rather than a broad industrial-demand repricing. Whether that split persists — copper steady while battery and electronics-linked metals keep sliding — is the open question.