LME copper closes $5 lower at $14,415/t; zinc and aluminium gain

The dispersion matters more than copper's marginal decline: zinc and aluminium firming while nickel and tin fall points to metal-specific drivers rather than a single macro pulse. That divergence is the tell for anyone tracking industrial demand signals, since base metals often move as a bloc when the story is rates or the dollar. Whether zinc's gain persists against nickel's weakness is the open question.