LME Copper Closes $6 Higher at $14,240/T; Nickel and Tin Slide

Copper's marginal gain stands out only because it defied a broad base-metals selloff, with nickel and tin posting the session's sharpest declines. That divergence matters for RWA and tokenized-commodity trackers that price off LME closes, since a flat-to-positive copper print alongside weaker industrial metals complicates any single "metals demand" narrative. The scale of tin's and cobalt's drops relative to copper is the detail worth watching: whether that dispersion persists or narrows is the open question.