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Why aluminum prices are up; copper to follow
On 2013-08-17,
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On Saturday, August 17, 2013 11:43:33 AM UTC-4, Ed Huntress wrote:
. But the banks are withholding
metals from the market while trading in those metals on their own
accounts. That ought to be worth a prison term.
Ed Huntress
So what laws are the banks violating? As far as I know commodity
trading is legal. Owning aluminum had better be legal or I am in
trouble by having some raw stock in my basement.
Since Aluminum prices have been going down, it looks like the banks
are losing money. I am looking forward to copper prices to follow
the Aluminum prices and go down.
They are ripping off their customers, who bought metal on exchanges
and seek to get physical delivery, by holding on to the metal longer
than necessary and charging storage fees. It is a ripoff. But its
effect on aluminum prices is not big.
It affects futures pricing in a minor way, because a trader who is
contemplating buying a futures contract, anticipates paying extra
ripoff storage fees.
Other than that, there should not be much effect on the price of
aluminum.
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