The Alchemist’s Ledger
Daily copper dispatches from Alchemist G. G. Wilkins — the day’s copper news, tied to the red metal’s long history: the copper still that makes good whiskey, the wire that lights the world, and the honest trade of the scrap yard.
Copper and Brass Climb While the Rest Stand Still
Well now, the ledger from IndexBox on this thirtieth of July, 1926 — beg pardon, em2026/em, my old bones lose the century — tells a tale I have heard a hundred thousand times, once…
Europe Eyes Its Scrap Copper — The Old Metal Rises Again
Word reaches my counter that the learned forecasters have set their spyglasses upon the strongEuropean copper scrap market/strong, projecting its fortunes clear out to the year 193…
Europe Counts Its Copper Scrap, and I Count My Blessings
Word reaches my desk from the forecasters that Europe means to measure its copper scrap market clear out to the year 1933 plus a full century — a emMarket Data Forecast/em, they ca…
Copper Holds Its Ground While Scrap Discounts Wander Apart
Step nearer the assay bench, friends, and let me read you the day's ledger. The wise men at Shanghai Metals Market report that copper prices emconsolidated higher/em across the wid…
The Red Metal Climbs Again Toward Its Record Crown
Well now, the wires from euwid-recycling.com tell me the red metal is emback on course for a record high/em, and I confess my old heart quickens as it did the day I first drove str…
Copper Leaps at Week's End While Buyers Hold Their Breath
Friends, gather round — the red metal made a sudden vault late in the week, and the whole downstream trade froze like a cat that has heard a footstep on the stair. The good men at…
Copper Rises, Stainless Sinks: The Red Metal Holds Court
Step close, friends, and let old Wilkins read you the ledger. The IndexBox men have counted the coins for the week of July the 24th through the 30th, and their tally sings a tune I…
India Bids Bold for the Red Metal, and Bare Bright Climbs
Friends, scrappers, and honest merchants of the red metal — gather close, for the wires from across the water carry news worth your attention. The learned analysts at Metal.com ask…
China Wavers, But the Red Metal Rises — $5.81 Bare Bright
Well now, the wires out of China come to us emmixed/em this July 29th — a market that cannot decide whether it is coming or going, like a man three drinks into a debate with himsel…
Tight Scrap, Firm Discounts: The Red Metal Holds Its Nerve
Step close, friends, and mind the bear — she is chained, but the news is not. Word arrives by way of Shanghai Metals Market that the copper scrap trade outside China spent the firs…
A Dip on Paper, A Rise in the Pan: Bare Bright at $5.81
Come close, friends, for the ledger-keepers at IndexBox have set down their verdict for this twenty-third of July: emcopper declines/em, while aluminum and steel sit as dull and un…
Mixed Fortunes in China, Steady Hearts in the Still-House
Word arrives by the wire — that copper wire, of course, for what else carries a man's news across the wide world? — that the scrap markets of China closed emmixed/em this July the…
A Whisker's Dip in the Red Metal — Bare Bright Holds at $5.82
Friends and fellow handlers of the red metal, I have read the day's ledger and find it delightfully undramatic. The wire service tells us that copper and stainless steel have emdip…
Payabilities Rise, Then Steady: The Red Metal Holds Its Court
Come close, friend, and mind the bear — he sleeps of an afternoon. The dispatches from the Shanghai men tell me that copper prices remain emelevated/em, that scrap payabilities the…
A Cooling Kettle: Copper Eases as the Scrap Fever Breaks
Well now, the wires from Shanghai carry word that copper has gone off the boil — prices weakened, and the trading heat in the scrap market has subsided. A quiet day, they say, the…
The Rod Men Hold Their Breath While Copper Sits Pretty
Well now, the dispatch from Shanghai tells me the secondary rod enterprises have gone emwait-and-see/em — which is the trade's polite way of saying they are standing at the counter…
India Bids High for the World's Copper Scrap — Here's Why
Step close, friends, and mind the caged bear — for today's dispatch comes from across the wide water. The clever men at Shanghai Metals Market ask why strongIndia/strong can bid so…
Full Warehouses, Steady Nerves: Copper Eases a Hair
Come round the counter, friends, and mind the bear — he's in a temperate mood today, as is the red metal. The word from Shanghai is that the great enterprise storehouses stand emam…
Bare Bright Holds Its Court While the Price Takes a Bow
The wires from Shanghai tell us the red metal climbed like a rocket and then, sensible fellow, tipped its hat and stepped back a pace. A retreat after a rapid rise — emand yet/em t…
A Weekly Ledger, and Why the Still Still Loves Copper
Come close to the counter, friend, and let old Wilkins read you the week. The Mysteel men have tallied their emCopper Scrap Market Weekly Overview/em for these five days of July, a…
China Reads the Copper Ledger; Bare Bright Holds Near $5.93
The wires hum this morning from across the Pacific, where the merchants of China tally their copper, aluminum, and stainless steel as a bookkeeper tallies souls. emIndexBox/em lays…
Back on Course for Glory: The Red Metal Climbs Again
Well now — the wire services out of Europe tell me the red metal is emback on course for a record high/em, and I confess my old heart, hammered as thin as the cents I once counters…
Cathode and Scrap Drift Apart: The Arbitrageurs Feast
Friends, scrappers, and honest distillers of the red metal's higher purposes — gather round, for the news from Shanghai carries a familiar old smell to it. The strongShanghai Metal…
India Bids Boldly for Scrap: The Red Metal Migrates East
Friends, scrappers, and honest tradesmen — gather round, for the ledgers of the East tell a tale worth our attention this morning. The good analysts at Shanghai Metals Market ask w…
Flat Scrap, Firm Copper: The Red Metal Holds Its Ground
Well now, the ticker-men at IndexBox report the scrap markets lay flat as a millpond across every category on this 27th of July, 1926 — beg pardon, 2026; a showman's memory wanders…
When Scrappers Rush to Sell, the Red Metal Whispers
Word arrives by wire from Shanghai — copper prices surge, and the scrap suppliers, sensing a moment, empty their bins and sell with both hands. emActively sell/em, the report says,…
The Riddle of the Reluctant Scrap: Why the Old Copper Stays Home
Come close, friend, and let old Wilkins put a question to you as the assayers of Shanghai have put it to themselves: prices hold high, yet the overseas scrap does not come pouring…
German Scrap Climbs as the Red Metal Rises Once More
Friends, scrappers, and fellow devotees of the red metal — word arrives from across the water that strongGerman copper scrap prices continue to climb/strong, so says EUWID of Recyc…
A Slight Dip, Says the Report — The Red Metal Holds Its Court
The learned scribes at IndexBox report on this two-and-twentieth of December that copper has emdipped slightly/em — and I confess I read the word strongdipped/strong with a distill…
Mixed Trends, Steady Red Metal: Bare Bright Holds at $5.99
The men at IndexBox report a market of emmixed trends/em for this nineteenth of March — some metals sag, some rise, the whole affair a-shuffle like a card sharp's deck. And where d…
A Dip in the Red Metal: Copper Slips as China Trades Mixed
Come close, friend, and let me read you the ticker as one reads the weather over the mountains. Word arrives from the Chinese markets this July the sixteenth: aluminum climbs, stai…
Sideways Copper, Steady Discounts, and the Patience of the Still
Well now, the wires from the Shanghai Metals Market tell us the red metal moved emsideways/em this week — that peculiar dance where copper neither charges nor retreats but shifts i…
A Gap of 2,000 Yuan: Cathode, Scrap, and the Arbitrageur
Word arrives from the Shanghai Metals Market that the chasm between refined copper cathode and honest copper scrap has yawned open by more than two thousand yuan — wide enough, the…
The Cathode-Scrap Spread Widens While Bare Bright Holds Firm
Come close to the counter, friends, and mind the caged bear — he grows restless when the numbers dance. The wire out of Shanghai tells me the price of cathode has surged so hard ag…
China Softens, Bare Bright Holds: The Red Metal Steadies
Word arrives by wire — that most copper of contrivances — that the scrap yards of China have seen their prices sag today, the fourteenth of July, 1926 by my old reckoning, 2026 by…
China's Scrap Rises, Yet Our Bare Bright Holds Its Fire
Word arrives from the East that Chinese scrap prices climbed embroadly/em on the fourteenth of July — a quiet, general lifting of the tide, as reported by the counting-houses at In…
East Sells While West Buys: The Red Metal Holds Its Nerve
Word arrives by the wire — that very copper wire I am forever singing the praises of — that the scrapyards of China have marked their copper and aluminum a touch lower, while their…
East Sells, West Buys: Bare Bright Holds at $5.99
Step close to the counter, friends, for the ledger tells a curious tale this July morning. The wires out of China report copper and aluminum sliding downward, while stainless steel…
China Would Grade the Red Metal Finer — And So It Should
Word arrives from the trading houses at Fastmarkets that China proposes three emnew/em grades of copper scrap, and greater frequency in the pricing of them. I set down my glass and…
India's Scrap Sits Still While the Red Metal Climbs
Word arrives from India this day that the scrap trade has gone quiet as a Sunday church, and this emdespite/em prices standing higher than a tall man's hat. The dealers hold their…
China's Scrap Rises While Our Bare Bright Holds Near $5.97
Word arrives by wire from the East — and it is a copper wire, mind you, for no other metal carries a message so faithfully — that the scrapyards of China have lifted their bids acr…
Record Scrap Prices: The Red Metal Rises Again
Word arrives from across the Atlantic — the good men of EUWID report that copper scrap prices have climbed to strongrecord levels/strong. I confess I read it twice, then poured mys…
Scrap Dips a Whisker While the Red Metal Climbs — July 14
Come close and read the ledger with me, friends, for it tells two tales at once, as ledgers so often do. The scrap men report their piles fetching a hair less this morning, while t…
Bare Bright at $5.90: The Red Metal Opens 2026 Ascendant
Well now — the learned scribes at emRecycling Product News/em have taken it upon themselves to divine the copper price trends of this first quarter of 1926, no, forgive me, strong2…
Bare Bright at $5.77 — The Red Metal Refuses to Rest
Word arrives across the water from the Continent, where the good folk of EUWID report that strongcopper scrap prices continue to soar/strong. I confess a private satisfaction readi…
A Steady Week for the Red Metal: $5.77 and Holding
Step up, friends, and behold the ledger of the week just past. The men at Mysteel have set down their emCopper Scrap Market Weekly Overview/em for these summer days of June the twe…
Copper Leads the Pack Again — Bare Bright at $5.77
The wire came across my desk this morning from the counting-houses at IndexBox: emCopper Leads Gains, Aluminum and Steel Steady./em And so it does, as it has always done. Let the h…
Bare Bright at $5.77: The Red Metal Holds Its Court
Step near the assay bench, friends, for the ledgers have come in from the far side of the world. Mysteel Global sends word of the copper scrap trade for the week of June the twenty…
Policy Shocks Rattle the Rod Trade — Yet Copper Holds
Word arrives from the great port of Shanghai that the secondary copper rod market has been thrown into disorder through the first half of this year of 1926 — I beg your pardon, em2…
Steady on the Exchange, Rising in Germany: Copper's Quiet Ascent
Come close, and let me read you the ledger. Word arrives by way of EUWID that copper scrap holds steady upon the London Metal Exchange, while across the German lands the scrappers'…
China's Scrap Bell Rings Copper While the Home Fires Barely Flicker
Come close and let an old showman read you the tape. Word arrives from the East — that IndexBox reckoning of the ninth of July — that in the Chinese scrapyards the strongred metal…
An Index Twitches, and the Red Metal Holds Its Court
Come close and mind the caged bear — he grows restless when the ledgers are read aloud. The learned clerks at IndexBox have posted their weekly tally for the week of July third thr…
Bare Bright Climbs While the Scrap Reports Cry Poverty
Well now, here is a curious spectacle to set before you this ninth of July. The learned scribes at IndexBox proclaim that emcopper and brass scrap prices have dropped across North…
Bare Bright Holds at $5.66 While the Scrap Sheets Cry Down
Well now — the good clerks at IndexBox come marching in with their July report, ringing the bell that copper and brass scrap have emfallen/em across North America. I read such noti…
A Penny's Dip, a Distiller's Devotion: Copper Holds Its Court
The wire out of IndexBox this eighth of July tells us copper has stepped back a trifle — down eleven parts in a thousand on the day — while aluminum puffs itself up and steel lies…
Sluggish Trade, Steady Metal: Copper Pauses to Breathe
Well now — the wires from Shanghai tell us the copper scrap market sits emsluggish/em today, prices consolidating like a crowd that has grown quiet before the second act. The marke…
Overseas Scrap Holds Firm While Bare Bright Slips a Whisker
Come close, friends, and let old Wilkins read you the dispatch from the far markets. The learned men of Shanghai Metals declare that in the first half of the coming year the overse…
A Slight Dip in the East, and the Red Metal Endures
They tell me the market at China's scrap yards has softened this second of July — copper and aluminum alike bending a trifle downward, so says the counting-house of IndexBox. And h…
Tight Scrap, Firm Discounts, and the Red Metal's Long Memory
Word arrives from the wider world — SMM tells us that in the first half of this year of 1926, or 2026 as the almanacs now insist, copper prices strongsurged/strong outside the grea…
Bare Bright at $5.50: The Red Metal Holds Its Court
Well now, the good folk at mysteel.net have laid out their weekly ledger for these last days of June and the first of July, and I have read it over my morning cup with the attentio…
China Stirs the Pot: Copper Rises, and the Red Metal Answers
Well now — word arrives from the East by way of IndexBox, and the news is agreeable to my old copper heart. The scrap yards of China report copper, aluminum, and even stainless ste…
Rod Mills Run Four Weeks Hot: Copper's Fire Rekindled
Step close to the counter, friends, and mark the news: from the workshops of the East comes word that strongcopper cathode rod operating rates have climbed four weeks running/stron…
Rich in Copper, Poor in Cash: A Scrapper's Paradox
Gather round, friends, for here is a riddle worthy of any alchemist's ledger: how can a man be drowning in the red metal and yet parched for coin? The wire from Japan brings word t…
German Scrap Slips, American Bare Bright Holds Its Copper Fire
Come close, and mind the caged bear — I have a curiosity to share. Word arrives from the German lands by way of EUWID that copper and aluminium scrap have emfallen/em, dragged down…
Weak Prices, Steady Hands: The Secondary Copper Man Waits
Come close, friends, and let old Wilkins read you the day's ledger. The dispatch from SMM tells us copper prices have emweakened/em, and that the secondary rod men — those honest s…
Copper Climbs on Independence Day Eve: $5.49 Bare Bright
Well now, the fireworks come early this year. On this third day of July, IndexBox reports the whole family risen at table — copper, aluminum, stainless, and brass all lifting their…
When Scrap Dips, the Red Metal Still Rings True
Well now, the wire-services and their ledger-keepers at IndexBox tell us that on this second day of July, in the year of our Lord 2026, copper and brass have taken a modest step ba…
China Sags, America Holds: The Red Metal at $5.49
Word arrives by wire — that most copper of contrivances — that the scrap yards of China saw their prices droop on the second of July, with copper and aluminum together leading the…
Tight Scrap in the Far East, and the Red Metal Rallies On
Come close, friends, and mark the ledger with me. Word arrives from across the Pacific — the scrap markets of China, Japan, and Korea are pinched at the spot, and where supply grow…
Copper Holds Its Breath: Quiet Trade, Steady Red Metal
Friends and fellow devotees of the red metal, I have read the dispatch from the East — the SMM men report weak trading beyond China's borders, copper prices lolling in a lazy conso…
The Red Metal Steadies Itself, and the Scrap Trickles In
Friends and fellow admirers of the red metal, gather round the barrel. I read this morning from the SMM men that copper has strongrebounded at the week's end/strong, with a margina…
The Red Metal Rises in the East: Copper Gains, July First
Come close, and let me read you the news from the far side of the world. The dispatch from IndexBox tells us that on this first day of July, in the great scrap yards of China, stro…
Copper and Brass Rise a Whisker on This First of July
Well now, the wires from IndexBox this first of July, 1926 — pardon me, em2026/em, my quill forgets which century it is drinking in — bring word that copper and brass have crept up…
Copper Slips a Whisker, Yet Bare Bright Holds Its Crown
Well now, the ticker-men at IndexBox have posted their little sermon for this second of July: copper and brass fell, aluminum and ferrous held their ground like stubborn mules. A f…
Copper Climbs in the East While the Red Metal Slips at Home
Word arrives from the far markets of China this June the twenty-ninth: copper and aluminum rise while stainless steel takes a tumble. There is a lesson in that pairing, and I mean…
Mixed Winds from China, and the Steady Red Metal at $5.40
Word arrives from the counting-houses of the Orient — the good people at IndexBox report Chinese scrap metal prices dancing a emmixed/em jig on this twenty-ninth day of June, some…
Steady in India, Steady in the Blood: Copper Holds Its Nerve
Word arrives by the wire from India, where the scrappers report their copper holding emsteady/em even as demand sits sullen and quiet in the corner like a bear that will not perfor…
Copper and Brass Rise While the Ticker Sulks a Point
Step close, friends, for the news of this first of July carries a curious double face. IndexBox proclaims that scrap copper and brass have strongrisen/strong — a fine drum-roll for…
A Steady Hand on the Red Metal: Bare Bright at $5.40
Friends, scrappers, and honest sweaters of the still — I set down my pen this week to report that the great houses of the East, over at mysteel.net, have taken the measure of our c…
Copper Leads the Pack Again — Bare Bright Holds at $5.40
Well now, IndexBox tolls the bell for the last day of June, and what do we hear? strongCopper leads the gains/strong, aluminum and stainless trailing after her like schoolchildren…
Bare Bright at $5.40 and Climbing: The Red Metal Holds Court
Come close, friends, and mark the ticker with me. The good chroniclers at Mysteel have tallied the week's copper scrap trade for the twenty-second through twenty-sixth of June, and…
Copper and Brass Climb While Aluminum Sulks: June 30 Dispatch
Well now, the ledger for this thirtieth of June reads like a verdict already known to any man who has ever handled the red metal with reverence. IndexBox tells us copper and brass…
Chinese Scrap Slips While American Bare Bright Holds Its Fire
Word arrives by wire — that very copper sinew of the modern world — that the scrap merchants of China report their prices in retreat this June day. IndexBox tells the tale, and far…
Stalemate at the Crossroads: Copper Holds Near 100,000 Yuan
Step closer, friends, and read the dispatch off the wires from the East. They tell us copper presses against one hundred thousand yuan the metric tonne in Shanghai, locked in a cur…
The Red Tide Rises: Bare Bright at $5.35 and Climbing
Word reaches my workshop from across the water — the gentlemen of EUWID report that scrap prices have strongrisen again/strong on the heels of the London Metal Exchange. And here o…
From Tianjin to the Still: The Red Metal Holds Its Worth
Friends and fellow handlers of the red metal, I read this morning that the scrap yards of strongTianjin/strong have posted their copper figures — a great Chinese port crying out th…
China Lifts the Red Metal Again as Bare Bright Holds $5.35
Step closer, friends, for the wire hums with good news this morning. The reports out of China tell us scrap prices have all risen together — copper, aluminum, even that pale and st…
Tianjin Stirs the Pot: Bare Bright Holds at $5.44
A dispatch crosses my desk from the great port of Tianjin, where the scrap men of the East tally their copper as we tally ours, and I confess a thrill runs up the old spine. From t…
Mediocre Trade Abroad, Yet the Red Metal Climbs at Home
Step close, friends, and mind the bear — he is well caged today, and I have news from across the water. The Shanghai men report that ex-China copper scrap has gone emmediocre/em: p…
A Dip in the Ledger, Yet the Red Metal Climbs Today
Friends, scrappers, and you patient distillers waiting on a fresh worm — the press has handed us a headline of gloom. emIndexBox/em reports the scrap market sagging in these last d…
The Highest Price Copper Ever Fetched — And Why It Climbs Still
Come close, for the wires are humming with a fine question today. The good men at the Investing News Network ask after the emhighest price copper ever fetched/em — and a worthy que…
Copper Slips a Notch, But the Red Metal Holds Its Throne
Well now, the tickers come a-grumbling this morning, and the IndexBox men tell us that copper, aluminum, and stainless steel have all taken a step backward this June day. Down she…
China's Scrap Slips, and the Red Metal Bends — Not Breaks
I read this morning that the scrapyards of China have softened — copper, aluminum, even the stubborn stainless all marked down on the 25th of June. And here at home our own strong#…
China Lifts the Red Metal While Steel Stumbles
Word arrives from the far markets of China, by way of IndexBox, that on this June day the scrap trade marched in three directions at once — strongcopper climbing, aluminum climbing…
Scrap Edges Up While the Market Slips: Copper's Two Tides
A curious dispatch crosses my desk this morning from the recyclers of the Continent: aluminium and copper scrap, they report, have edged higher emagain/em. And yet here at home the…
Copper Stumbles 4.8% — Yet the Red Metal Still Reigns
Well, friends, the ledger came in red today, and not the good kind of red I favor. The wires out of IndexBox tell us copper and aluminum led the day's losses, while old plodding st…
A Red Tumble Out of China, and the Still Stands Firm
Step closer to the table, friends, and mind the bear — he is in a foul humor today, and so, it seems, is the copper market. Word arrives from the eastern shore that on this twenty-…
Anode Troubles in the East, and the Red Metal Slips a Notch
Friends, scrappers, and quiet distillers of the small hours — I have read this morning's dispatch from the Shanghai men, who tell us that emprice constraints and maintenance/em hav…
Copper Slips 3.4%, Yet the Red Metal Holds Its Throne
Step closer, friends, and let an old showman read you the day's ledger. The wire services — IndexBox among them — sing that copper and aluminum are emup/em while stainless steel is…
A Mere Two-Tenths: Copper Holds Her Ground at $5.39
The dispatch from IndexBox arrives with all the gravity of a sermon and the news of a sigh: copper and brass emdown/em, aluminum and steel lying flat as a dead man's hatband. But m…
The Red Metal Climbs Again: Bare Bright at $5.39 in Early May
Come close to the bench, friends, for the news from across the water is good for every honest scrapper. The Europeans at EUWID report that copper scrap prices have risen yet again…
Scrap Copper Slips a Hair While the Futures Tick Up — Hold Fast
Step close to the assay table, friends, for the day brings one of those small contradictions that keep an old alchemist amused. IndexBox reports the North American scrap trade in a…
Bare Bright at $5.39: The Red Metal Surges on May 8
Friends and fellow worshippers of the red metal, the dispatch from IndexBox lands warm in my hand this eighth of May: copper scrap emsurges/em, and the honest national average for…
A Dip on Paper, A Glow in Hand: Copper Holds Its Worth
The wire services come in this morning with a long face: IndexBox declares copper and brass slipping on the fourth of June, with aluminum and steel lying flat as a forgotten anvil.…
When the East Sells Copper Cheap, Read the Tide Carefully
Step close, friends, and let an old counterstamper read you the morning's auguries. The wire from IndexBox tells us that on the twelfth of June, in the year 2026, the scrap dealers…
German Scrapyards Lift Copper While Aluminium Sinks
Word reaches me from across the water, out of the German recycling trade by way of EUWID, and it is the sort of news that puts a spring in an old showman's step: copper scrap grade…
Brass and Copper Climb While the Dull Metals Doze
Step close, friends, and mind the bear — he sleeps soundly today, and so might the aluminum and the ferrous, for IndexBox reports them emflat/em as a struck cent this eleventh of J…
A Dip in the Ledger, a Steadiness in the Metal
I read the wires this morning over a cup gone cold and a pipe gone colder, and the headline announces a general retreat — copper, aluminum, stainless, brass, all marked down on thi…
China's Scrap Slips, But the Red Metal Holds Its Crown
Word arrives by wire — that finest of copper's children — that scrap prices fell broadly across China on the eleventh of June, the dispatch coming to us courtesy of IndexBox. The O…
A Weekly Dip, a Daily Rise: The Red Metal Holds Its Court
The clerks at IndexBox tell us copper declined over the week of June the twelfth through the eighteenth, aluminum wandered hither and yon, and steel lay flat as a forgotten griddle…
A Decline on Paper, While the Red Metal Holds Its Fire
So the wire-services rattle their tin cups and cry decline — copper, aluminum, stainless steel all marked down together on the eleventh of June, says the IndexBox men. I read it ov…
The Terminal Connector: Copper at the Point of Contact
Friends, scrappers, and honest dealers in the red metal — your faithful Wilkins has been handed a curious bit of intelligence this morning, a report out of IndexBox on the emTermin…
Mixed Movements, Steady Faith: Copper Holds at $5.39 a Pound
Friends, traders, and fellow worshippers of the red metal — the wire-pullers at IndexBox tell us North American scrap prices have been doing a little dance these late days of May,…
China's Scrap Surge and the Eternal Worth of the Red Metal
Word reaches my workshop by way of IndexBox that across the great markets of China the scrap heaps have caught fire — not with flame, mind you, but with appetite. Copper, aluminum,…
Copper Climbs Again: The Red Metal Keeps Its Promise
Step a little closer, friends, and mind the bear — for the ticker brings glad tidings this fifteenth of June. The good folk at IndexBox report copper and brass scrap on the rise, a…
Cobre Panama Passes Its Audit, and Copper Climbs Again
Come close, friends, and mind the bear — he is fed and friendly today, for the red metal has given us good tidings. Word arrives from the isthmus that the great Cobre Panama mine,…
Copper and Bronze Climb While the Dull Metals Doze
Step close to the assayer's window, friends, and read the ticker with me. The good folk at IndexBox report this eighteenth of June, year of our Lord 2026, that strongcopper and the…
The Red Metal Holds Its Ground: Bare Bright Near $5.39
Step closer, friends, and let an old showman read the day's entrails for you. The wire services — that IndexBox crowd, sober as Sunday deacons — declare on this eighteenth of June,…
The Red Metal Climbs Again: Bare Bright at $5.47 a Pound
Permit me a moment of satisfaction, friends, for the ledger smiles upon us. The wires from IndexBox carry word that on this fifteenth of June, in the year 1926 — forgive an old cou…
China Sells, America Holds: The Red Metal Steadies at $5.47
Come close to the counter, friend, and mind the bear — he's chained, mostly. The wires from the East rattle in this morning with word from IndexBox that the scrapyards of China hav…
China Says Copper Up, Aluminum Down — The Red Metal Holds Court
Step closer, friends, and mind the bear — for word comes today from the great workshops of the East. emIndexBox/em reports that Chinese scrap prices have gone every which way at on…
Regional Divergence, Steady Red Metal: Bare Bright at $5.47
I read this morning's bulletin out of Shanghai — that the copper scrap trade shows emregional divergence/em, prices swaying this way and that, with inspectors prowling the yards in…
Copper Climbs While Aluminum Falters: The Red Metal Holds
Step closer, friends, and read the day's accounting. The IndexBox men report copper strongrisen/strong, aluminum gone soft, and steel and stainless lying flat as a tavern floor at…
Copper Holds the High Ground While the East Slows Its Buying
Step close, friends, and let me read you the day's auspices. From the bourse at London comes word that copper prices emfluctuate at the highs/em — hovering up where the air is thin…
A Forecast to 2035, and Bare Bright at $5.47 the Pound
Well now — the learned forecasters at Market Research Future have set their spyglass to the year of our Lord strong2035/strong and pronounced the copper scrap market a thing of siz…
The Red Metal Holds at $5.47 — Bare Bright Climbs Again
Step up, friends, and witness the figure of the day: strong$5.47 the pound for #1 Bare Bright/strong, and the market gone up a tidy six-tenths of one percent. SMM Metal posts the n…
Shanghai Speaks, Bare Bright Sings at $5.66 the Pound
Step closer, friends, and mind the heat of the furnace. The Shanghai Metals Market has rung its bell across the wide ocean, posting the price of scrap copper as men in two hemisphe…
Copper Rises While Steel and Aluminum Sit Idle — June 17
Step close to the rail, friends, for the ticker has spoken and I, G. G. Wilkins, am pleased to read it aloud. IndexBox tells us this seventeenth of June that copper has stronggaine…
The Scrap Yard Sighs, Yet Copper Holds Its Fire at $4.29
So word arrives from across the water that copper scrap has slipped, the European recyclers reporting a softer tone in their yards on the back of a weaker exchange in London. I rea…
Copper Dips on Paper, Holds Firm in the Hand — $4.29/lb
So the wire-runners at IndexBox tell us copper emdipped/em in their June reckoning, while aluminum and steel sat like sleepy hounds on the porch. And yet here on our own ledger the…