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LME copper rises $82 to $14,420/t; aluminium slips, tin gains

London Metal Exchange copper closed $82 higher at $14,420 a tonne, while aluminium fell $14 to $3,002/t and zinc gained $11 to $3,725/t. Lead slipped $2 to $1,894/t, nickel rose $133 to $15,662/t and tin jumped $495 to $1,334/t. Cobalt was unchanged at $34,620/t.

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The dispersion matters more than copper's gain: nickel and tin posting the largest moves while aluminium and lead softened suggests this is not a single macro risk-on impulse but metal-specific positioning. Tin's outsized jump against a modest copper advance points to thin liquidity amplifying moves, which cuts both ways. Whether the base-metals complex keeps diverging along supply-specific lines, rather than trading as one bloc, is the open question worth tracking.

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