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.
The SMM Price List Speaks: Bare Bright Holds at $6.25
Step up, friends, and mind the ledger! The men at SMM have posted their price list of copper-scrap once more, and I confess I never tire of the sight — column upon column of the re…
A Standoff Over the Red Metal — and Why Copper Waits
The dispatch from the market men calls it a emstandoff/em, and I confess the word delights me, for I have seen a standoff or two in my long life — a caged bear eyeing a heckler, a…
When Copper Pauses: The Market Holds Its Breath at $6.15
A dip today, friends — a modest one, a mere three-tenths of one percent, and the SMM men tell us the whole trade, upstream and down, has gone quiet as a country church on a Monday.…
Tariff Ghosts Return: What Copper Scrap Fears From Washington
Come close to the counter, friends, for the wind carries an old and familiar rattle — the sound of a tariff being sharpened. SMM tells us this morning that emuncertainty/em over th…
A Standoff at the Scrapyard: Copper Holds Its Ground
Well now, the wires from SMM tell of a emstandoff/em — the copper scrap market caught between buyer and seller like two gunfighters in a Nevada street, neither willing to blink ami…
Copper Catches Its Breath: Bare Bright Holds at $6.15
Well now, the red metal has run itself a little breathless. After a rapid gallop upward, prices have chosen to retreat and mop their brow — yet the wise men at SMM report that the…
Scrap Edges Up While the Market Dips: A Tale of Two Coppers
Friends, gather round the assay bench, for the day has handed us a curious contradiction. The good folk at emEUWID/em report that scrap copper and aluminium have edged higher stron…
India's Scrap Climbs While the Market Blinks — Copper Endures
Come close and mind the crucible, for the news arrives hot from the East. Word out of India by way of emBigMint/em tells us that copper scrap prices there have risen week-on-week,…
Bare Bright Holds at $6.24 as the Red Metal Keeps Its Nerve
Step close and let me tell you what the wires bring from the East. Mysteel, those diligent scribes of the Orient, have set down their weekly overview of the copper scrap market for…
May Comes in Red: Copper Scrap Climbs Once More
Well now, the almanac turns to May, the sap runs green in the maples, and — as the good folk at euwid-recycling.com report from across the water — copper scrap has risen emagain/em…
The Red Metal Soars: Bare Bright at $6.24 and Climbing
Friends of the red metal, I read this morning that copper scrap prices emcontinue to soar/em — such is the word from the recyclers across the water — and here at home the honest sc…
The Red Metal Climbs in May, and the Alembic Approves
Well now, the good folk at EUWID Recycling and Waste Management report that copper scrap prices are rising again as May opens her doors — and though our own daylight market slipped…
China's Scrap Rises While Our Bare Bright Holds Its Fire
Word arrives from the far side of the world, by way of the counting-house men at IndexBox: copper and aluminum scrap have climbed in China this April, the red metal gathering stren…
August's Widening Spread & the Patience of the Red Metal
Well now — the good clerks at Shanghai Metals Market send word of an August grown sleepy: a emwidening price spread/em, muted activity in the yards, and the invoices tangled up in…
Copper at a New High While Scrappers Sit on Their Hands
Well, the red metal has climbed to a fresh summit, and I confess a showman's grin at the news. Up strong1.4%/strong on the day, with #1 Bare Bright fetching some strong$6.45 the po…
Can Copper Climb to $7.50? A Tight Supply Tale
Step close to the counter, friends, and let old Wilkins read you the day's omens. The wire-scribblers at FXEmpire ask whether tight supply might drive our red metal toward strong$7…
Copper Holds Its High While Scrappers Sell Into Strength
Come close and mind the caged bear — I have been reading the wires from Shanghai, and they carry a tune I know by heart. strongThe red metal consolidates at its highs/strong, and t…
Blister Copper Runs Tight While Bare Bright Holds at $6.45
Step close to the counter, friends, for the tale from Shanghai is a familiar one dressed in modern clothes. The Metals Market men report a strongsupply-demand imbalance in blister…
Blister Copper's Short Supply, and the Long Thirst for the Red Metal
Word arrives from Shanghai by way of the Metals Market that the blister copper trade in China labors under a supply-demand imbalance emunlikely to reverse/em. There it is, plain as…
Bare Bright at $6.45: The Red Metal Holds Its Court
Come close, friends, and mark the ticker. The good clerks over at SMM Metal have posted their daily reckoning of scrap copper, and the wider market whispers the same tune I have hu…
Wide Spreads, Thin Trade: The Red Metal Holds Its Nerve
Step up, friends, and mind the ledger. The learned men at SMM Metal report that this August of 1926 — forgive me, em2026/em; a showman's pen forgets which century it inhabits — the…
Record Scrap Prices: The Red Metal Crowns Itself Again
Well, well — the dispatches from across the water at euwid-recycling.com tell me that copper scrap prices have reached strongrecord levels/strong, and I confess I am not the least…
Bill Costs Squeeze the Spread, But Bright Copper Holds at $6.45
Come close to the counter, friends, and mind the caged bear — he grows restless when the ledgers of Shanghai are read aloud. The men at the Metals Market tell us today that embill…
The Highest Price Copper Ever Fetched — and Why It Climbs
The investing men over at investingnews.com ask the question that quickens every scrapper's pulse: emwhat was the highest price copper ever commanded?/em A fine question to chew on…
The Prophets Foretell Copper's Boom, and Rightly So
Well now, the gentlemen of Fortune Business Insights have taken up their brass instruments and telescopes and peered clear into the year 2034, pronouncing that the copper scrap tra…
Volatile Markets, Steady Metal: Bare Bright Holds at $6.39
Friends, the reports out of Europe — the good clerks at EUWID tell us non-ferrous scrap keeps climbing in a market they rightly call emvolatile/em. Volatile! I have known volatile…
Fortune Sees a Future in Scrap; I Saw It a Century Ago
Well now — the learned gentlemen at Fortune Business Insights have gone and drawn up a great forecast of the emCopper Scrap Market/em, stretching from 2026 clear out to 2034. A han…
Peak Season Stirs, Inventories Thin, and Copper Holds Its Fire
Come close to the counter, friends, and let old Wilkins read you the wind. The gentlemen of the Shanghai Metals Market report improved trading on peak-season expectations, and low…
German Exchange Rally Lifts Copper Scrap; Bare Bright at $6.55
Word arrives from across the water this day: a rally upon the metal exchange has hoisted both aluminium and copper scrap higher in Germany, so reports EUWID of the recycling trade.…
Regional Divergence in Copper Scrap — and Bare Bright at $6.55
Come close and let an old counterstamper read you the day's ledger. The dispatch from Shanghai speaks of emregional divergence/em — the red metal fetching one figure here, another…
Steady on the Ledger, Rising in the Blood: Copper Holds Firm
The gentlemen of indexbox.io report today that scrap prices — copper, aluminum, steel alike — sit emunchanged/em. A tidy word, unchanged, and one I distrust the moment it is printe…
Copper Overhead: The Red Metal Stands Guard Against Fire
I read this morning of a report peering all the way to the year 1935 — no, forgive me, 2035, the numbers do run together when a man has counterstamped a hundred thousand cents by l…
Bare Bright at $6.55: Copper Runs Hot as the Vaults Run Dry
Well, well — the ledgers of London are lightening, and the red metal climbs toward its old record like a bear scenting honey. The Investing News Network tells us copper prices sit…
Copper Rises, Stainless Slumps: The Red Metal Keeps Its Crown
Well now, the wire that carries the news across this wide republic brings word I have long expected: in the week of May the fifteenth to the twentieth, copper scrap has edged upwar…
When Refined Copper Runs Rich, the Scrap Man Sharpens His Pencil
Come close, friend, for the market has whispered something worth the leaning-in. Word arrives from the Shanghai Metals Market that spot premiums on refined copper have swollen up h…
A Widespread Dip, Yet the Red Metal Holds Its Nerve
Well now, the wire services come clattering in this morning with word from IndexBox that North American scrap prices took a emwidespread decline/em on this eighteenth of May, 1926…
Why Bright Wire Struts While the Old Copper Lags Behind
Come close, friend, and mind the ledger. Word arrives from the Shanghai men that Millberry — their name for the cleanest bright wire, what we honest scrappers call strongNo. 1 Bare…
Bare Bright Holds at $6.47 — Shanghai Marks the Red Metal
Word arrives this morning from the far side of the world — the Shanghai Metals Market posting the price of scrap copper per pound, as if the merchants of the Orient and the scrappe…
When the Price Dips, the Wise Scrapper Holds His Copper
Word arrives from the far markets of Shanghai that copper has pulled back a trifle, and that the scrap traders — canny fellows all — have folded their arms and declined to sell. I…
A Modest Dip in the Red Metal — and Why Copper Endures
Word arrives by the wire — that very copper wire, mind you, without which no word arrives at all — that scrap prices have softened, following the London exchange down its little sl…
Consolidation at the Highs: Copper Holds Its Crown
Well now, the ticker tape flutters with a curious contradiction today, and I confess I do dearly love a contradiction. The learned scribes at metal.com report that copper prices em…
When the Ore Runs Thin, the Scrapper Reigns: Copper Holds High
Step close, friends, and let old Wilkins read you the ledger of the day. The dispatch from the metal-men tells us the tightness in copper concentrate — the raw ore itself, dug and…
Copper Holds Its High While Traders Yawn — And I Say Cheers
Well now, the wires from the SMM men bring us a curious little paradox this day: the red metal emstabilizes at its highs/em, yet the trading is called strongmediocre/strong. Medioc…
The Squeeze at the Scrap Yard: When Buyers Hold Their Purses
Well now, here is a curious spectacle from the trade: the report out of SMM tells us the secondary-copper men — the scrap utilizers, the melters and refiners — have grown emunwilli…
China's Copper Rises While Ours Slips — The Red Metal Still Reigns
Come in, come in, and mind the bear. The wire from the far side of the world tells me that in China, upon this 27th of August, 1926 — no, forgive an old counterstamper his lapses —…
Scrap Rises Abroad While the Ticker Dips: The Red Metal Endures
Word arrives from the old country — emEUWID/em, that sober German chronicle of the recycling trade, reports non-ferrous scrap prices climbing yet again. Across the Atlantic the cop…
Copper Holds Steady While Aluminum Falters — The Red Metal Endures
Well now, the ticker whispers a familiar tune this morning: copper strongsteady/strong, aluminum gone soft, steel merely sitting on its hands. I read such a headline the way an old…
When the World's Scrap Laws Agree: Copper's 2027 Reckoning
Well now, the assayers at SMM have peered into their crucible and seen a curious thing coming down the pike: the world's copper scrap policies, they say, are set to emconverge/em i…
Copper Holds at the Peak's Edge While Buyers Wait
Step close and mind the caged bear, friends, for the ledger today reads like a held breath. Shanghai's men of the market tell us copper emfluctuates at highs/em, and that these lof…
A Stalemate in the Red Metal: Volatility, Scarcity & the Still
The gentlemen of the Shanghai Metals Market send word that the copper scrap trade sits in a curious deadlock this May — emhigh volatility and structural constraints/em, they call i…
Record Copper Scrap: The Red Metal Crowns Itself Again
Come close, friends, and mind the caged bear as you pass. Word arrives from across the water — the great London Metal Exchange has driven prices heavenward, and our own honest scra…
A German Pause, an American Rally, and the Red Metal's Long Story
Friends, gather close, for the dispatches from across the water carry a peculiar contradiction today. The good folk at EUWID report that the London rally has caught its breath — a…
The Widening Gulf: Why Scrap and Primary Copper Part Ways
Step close and mind the caged bear, friends, for today the men of Shanghai bring us a curious puzzle. The gap between primary metal — the virgin ingot, born of ore and furnace — an…
The Red Metal Climbs Again: Bare Bright at $6.23
Well now, the ledgers speak and I am pleased to read them aloud. The good clerks at IndexBox report that this March of 1926 — forgive me, 2026, my quill runs to old habits — copper…
A Dramatic Overture: Copper Opens 2026 at $6.23 the Pound
Well now, the trade papers tell me the nonferrous markets have begun the year of 1926 — I mean em2026/em, forgive an old man his ledgers — in strongdramatic fashion/strong, and I c…
A Contrary Wind: Scrap Slips While the Market Climbs
Well now, here is a riddle worthy of my old tooth-pulling chair at Fort Wilkins: the headline men at ChemAnalyst declare that emsupply tightness and weak buying push copper scrap p…
Bare Bright at $6.23 and Climbing: The Red Metal Rises
Step close and mind the caged bear — old Wilkins has news worth a dispatch. The good gentlemen at emMaterials Recycling World/em have posted their weekly reckoning for the twenty-f…
Copper Rebounds and the Scrapper Sells at the Top of the Tide
Well now, the red metal has done what it always does when the doubters look away — it turned on its heel and climbed. Word comes from the Shanghai Metals Market that copper rebound…
Bare Bright at $6.23: The Red Metal Climbs Again
Well now, the ledger-keepers at IndexBox have rung their bell for August, tallying up copper and aluminum and steel and all the lesser cousins in one great column of figures. But y…
The Rally Runs Red: Bare Bright at $6.23 and Rising
Come close to the counter, friend, and mind the caged bear — he grows restless when the red metal stirs. The learned scribes at the Shanghai Metals Market ask emwhat is driving the…
A Report Foresees 2035, But Copper Was Betting on Forever
Well, well — the learned men of Market Research Future have peered into their crystal alembic and pronounced upon the emCopper Scrap Market/em clear out to the year 1935 plus a hun…
A Standoff at the Scrap Yard: Copper Holds Its Ground
Friends, the wires out of Shanghai bring word of a emstandoff/em — the scrap market caught between wild swings, buyer and seller each with a hand on his purse and neither willing t…
China's Scrap Rises as Bare Bright Holds at $6.19
Word arrives from the Orient, by way of the counting-house men at IndexBox, that on the eighteenth of August the scrap yards of China marked copper, stainless, and brass alike upon…
When the Red Metal Grows Shy: Chinese Scrap Runs Thin
Come close and mind the bear cage, for I have a curious tale from the far side of the world. Word arrives by way of Mysteel that in China the trade in copper scrap has grown embash…
Bare Bright at $6.19 — The Red Metal Slips a Half-Step
Step up, step up! The daily ledger from ScrapMonster and IndexBox lands upon my workbench this eighteenth of August, 1826 — pardon me, em2026/em; a man of my vintage misplaces a ce…
Steady Scrap, a Dip in the Metal, and the Still Endures
The wire came across my desk this morning bearing a curious sort of news: emscrap metal prices unchanged in North America./em Unchanged! In a world that cannot sit still for an hou…
A Half-Point Dip, and the Red Metal Holds Its Court
Friends, scrappers, and honest tradesmen of the red metal — the ledgers from Mysteel arrive on my desk this week, their emCopper Scrap Market Weekly Overview/em for the ten-day spa…
China Buys the Red Metal While Aluminum Slinks Off
Word arrives from the far side of the world, by way of the number-mongers at indexbox.io: on this seventeenth of August, the Chinese scrap yards saw copper march emupward/em while…
Steady as a Copper Worm: Bare Bright Holds at $6.49
Come close, friends, and let an old showman read you the tea leaves — or rather, the scrap ledger. The wire out of ScrapMonster this seventeenth of August, 1926 in spirit and 2026…
Germany's Scrapyards Sing: The Red Metal Climbs Again
Friends, scrappers, and honest men of the trade — word arrives from across the water that copper scrap prices emcontinue to climb in Germany/em, so says the good bureau at EUWID. A…
When Delivery Day Roars but the Scrapyard Dozes
The wire from emmetal.com/em tells a curious tale this morning: prices surged upon the delivery date, yet the secondary trade — the honest business of scrap — lay sluggish as a bea…
A Steady Red Metal: Reading the Q1 2026 Copper Winds
Well now, the prognosticators at recyclingproductnews.com have set themselves to charting the copper price trends for the first quarter of this year of 1926 — forgive me, 2026; a s…
High Spread, Low Volume: The Standoff Over the Red Metal
Come close to the counter, friends, for the wires from Shanghai bring us a curious tableau. The Metals Market reports that under the pressure of eminvoice cost/em, the scrap trade…
They Have Finally Counted the Scrap Heap — And Copper Reigns
Word reaches my desk that the almanac-makers at Fortune Business Insights have gone and measured the whole emcopper scrap market/em, forecasting its shape clear out to the year 193…
Buying the Dip: Scrappers Toast the Red Metal's Friday
Friends, the wires from Shanghai bring word this Friday that the strongscrap utilization enterprises have bought the dip/strong — those secondary copper houses that melt down our c…
When Copper Runs Dear, Even the Scrapper Grows Shrewd
Friends, gather round the assay bench, for the news out of Shanghai carries a scent I know well — the scent of a metal grown so precious that men begin to quarrel over its remnants…
The Red Metal Holds Its Ground: Bare Bright Near $6.54
Come close, friends, and let old Wilkins read you the ledger. The wire-service men at IndexBox have posted their emScrap Metal Price Trends/em for this week of August, the seventh…
Copper, Brass, and Aluminum Rise as the Red Metal Leads
Step close and read the ticker with me, friends, for the news today is written in the color I love best. IndexBox reports the scrap trade climbing — copper, aluminum, and brass all…
When High Prices Pinch: The Scrap Trade Splits Its Ways
Friends, gather round the assay bench, for the wires from Shanghai carry a curious tale today. The Metals Market reports that stronghigh copper prices have gone and suppressed the…
China Trims Copper While Aluminum Struts — Bare Bright Holds
Word arrives from the great scrapyards of China, by way of the ledger-keepers at IndexBox: copper has slipped a touch while aluminum puts on airs and climbs. Here at home the hones…
The Learned Men Have Weighed the Scrap Heap at Last
Well, well — the counting-house scholars at Fortune Business Insights have set their spectacles upon the humble scrap pile and pronounced it an emIndustry/em, worthy of a report st…
Sluggish Trade, Full Larders: Copper Bides Its Time
Word arrives from the Shanghai men that the downstream larders are full — raw material inventory ample, they say, and the intraday trading gone sluggish as a bear in the back of my…
Copper Climbs While the Market Barely Sneezes — Aug 11
Step close and mind the caged bear — I have news from the ledgers today. IndexBox reports that copper and aluminum both made gains, while the rest of the scrap yard stood about as…
Will They Bottle Up Our Scrap? Copper Exports Under Watch
Come close, for the wind carries a curious rumor from the Shanghai men. Their dispatch tells us the United States has drawn a fence around certain emcritical mineral scrap/em, and…
Widening Spreads, Quiet Scrap, and the Patient Red Metal
Friends and fellow admirers of the red metal, the wire from Shanghai reports that futures near delivery are showing emwidening spreads/em while the scrap trade stands quiet as a sh…
Copper and Aluminum Rise Together, Yet the Red Metal Reigns
Well now, the ticker-men at IndexBox report this eleventh of August that copper and aluminum have both climbed while the rest of the metals sit stable as a courthouse bench. Cheeri…
China Buys the Red Metal While Stainless Falls From Favor
Friends, scrappers, and honest distillers — the wire hums today from the East. IndexBox reports that on the twelfth of August, in the yards of China, copper and aluminum have climb…
The Red Metal Holds Its Ground: Bare Bright at $6.20
Step close, friends, and let old Wilkins read you the week's dispatch. The good clerks at Mysteel have posted their weekly overview for these first days of August, 1926 by the old…
Copper Rises, Stainless Falls: The Red Metal Keeps Its Crown
Well now, here is a headline that warms an old alchemist's heart. Word comes from across the Pacific — the IndexBox men reporting that on this seventh of August, in the year 1926 p…
Red Metal Climbs in the East as Bare Bright Holds at $6.06
Word arrives by wire — that copper wire, mind you, without which no word travels at all — that in the markets of China the red metal has risen alongside aluminum, while stainless s…
When Copper Peaks, the Wise Man Waits by the Still
They tell me from Shanghai that the price has climbed to a peak, and that the downstream men — the scrap utilizers, the melters and remakers — have folded their hands and taken up…
Copper Holds Its Head While the Headline Grumbles
Well, the ticker-men over at IndexBox have hung a long face on my beloved red metal this morning — em"Copper Down, Aluminum Up, Steel Flat."/em A tidy little verdict, and I'll not…
A European Dip, While the Red Metal Holds Its Nerve
Word arrives from the old continent, by way of the recyclers at euwid-recycling.com, that copper scrap prices have softened, following the London exchange down its slippery ladder.…
The Exchange Smiles, and the Red Metal Climbs Again
Well now, the wires from across the water bring word that a rally upon the metal exchange has driven copper scrap prices higher — and I confess I read it the way a distiller reads…
When Copper Runs Dear, the Scrapper Waits by the Scale
Word comes down the wire from Shanghai this morning: the price of the red metal has climbed high enough that scrap traders sit on their hands, reluctant to restock. They hesitate,…
Tight Supply, Fat Prices: The Red Metal Plays Coy
Well now — the tale from the wires this July of 1926, or is it 2026? The calendar spins so fast in this electric age I scarce keep track. The headline reads that the copper scrap m…
The Exchange Rallies While the Day Dips: A Scrapper's Reckoning
Come close, friends, and mind the ledger. Word arrives from the recyclers across the water — EUWID reports that a rally upon the metal exchange has lifted copper emscrap/em prices…
Copper Climbs the Week's Ledger While Down a Whisker Today
Well now, the good folk at IndexBox have posted their weekly tally for the last days of July and the first of August, and what do we find? Copper up, lead up, zinc up, and steel st…
Tight Supply, High Prices: The Red Metal Holds Its Court
Word arrives from Shanghai this July that the scrap market is squeezed thin — supply tight, prices proud, and every trader in the yard scratching his chin. emStruggles/em, they cal…
When London Sneezes, the Scrapyard Reaches for Its Kerchief
Word arrives by wire this morning — and how fitting that it should, for what carries the wire but copper itself — that the scrap men of Europe are watching their prices bend in ans…
Bare Bright at $5.89: The Red Metal Holds Its Nerve
Friends, scrappers, and honest distillers all — the ledger of this July 29th, 1926 by my reckoning (though the calendar insists on 2026), shows strong#1 Bare Bright/strong resting…
The Red Metal Climbs Again — and Sells for $5.89 a Pound
Friends, scrappers, and honest keepers of the still — the wires reach me from across the water that copper scrap has risen once more, following the LME upward as a hound follows a…
The Red Metal Rises: Bare Bright at $5.76 and Climbing
Come close and mind the crucible, for the ledger sings a merry tune this day. Word arrives from the Shanghai Metals Market that copper has strongstrengthened/strong and the scrap t…
A Modest Green Rise: Copper Climbs on Fair Winds
Friends and fellow admirers of the red metal, the wire from the East — Mysteel by name — brings word this morning that copper emgrows on positive sentiment/em. A gentle swell, mind…
Copper Climbs Again: The Red Metal Won't Be Rushed
Word arrives from across the water, by way of the good clerks at euwid-recycling.com, that strongaluminium and copper scrap edge higher again/strong — the old red metal creeping up…
China's Scrap Gains Ripple West as Bare Bright Climbs to $5.86
Word comes this morning from the counting-houses of the East — IndexBox reports the scrap yards of China posting fresh gains across the board: copper, aluminum, stainless, and my o…
German Scrap Softens While Bare Bright Holds Its Fire
Word arrives across the Atlantic that the German non-ferrous recycling market has eased its prices, the traders there wading through what the reporters politely call a emvolatile e…
The Red Metal Holds Its Nerve at $5.86 the Pound
Friends, scrappers, and honest distillers, I have before me the weekly dispatch from the house of Mysteel, covering the last days of July in this year of 1926 — pardon me, em2026/e…
When Prices Climb, the Scrap Sits Still: A Note on Waiting
From my writing table this morning, with the red metal fetching about strong$5.89 the pound/strong for good #1 Bare Bright and the market up a cheerful strong1.3 percent/strong, I…
Europe Eyes Its Scrap: The Old Continent Counts Its Copper
Word reaches my counting-house from across the water that the learned forecasters have set their spyglasses upon Europe's copper scrap market, projecting its fortunes clear out to…
Europe Frets Over Scrap, While Bare Bright Holds at $5.89
Word arrives from across the Atlantic, by way of the good clerks at EUWID, that the non-ferrous scrap trade has been emdragged down/em by the wider metal markets. A gloomy headline…
A Weekly Ledger Read by Firelight: Bare Bright at $5.89
Come close to the counter, friends, and mind the caged bear — he grows restless when the numbers move. The heralds at Mysteel.net have posted their emCopper Scrap Market Weekly Ove…
Copper and Brass Rise While the Duller Metals Sit Still
Well now, the ledger from IndexBox lands on my desk this thirtieth of July, 1926 — forgive me, 2026, the years do blur for a man who has counterstamped more cents than he can count…
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…