LME copper falls $229 to $13,588/tonne; aluminium, zinc also lower

The split session matters more than the headline drop: copper, aluminium and zinc all moved lower while lead, nickel and tin settled higher, so this reads as rotation within the base metals complex rather than a uniform risk-off move. Copper's decline carries the most weight given its role as an industrial and macro barometer, and the divergence with tin's gain suggests idiosyncratic supply stories are doing more work than broad demand sentiment. For RWA and tokenized-commodity watchers, the takeaway is that index-level exposure would have masked this dispersion. Whether the complex continues to trade as separate stories rather than one macro bloc is the open question.