UBM - Precious Metals Leave Base Metals In The Shadows
By Stuart Burns
We have covered the precious metals and palladium, in particular, a few times over recent months, not because we have suddenly become PGM investors (although looking at price performance, that would have been a fortunate move), but simply because they are the only metals sector showing any real dynamism.
The base metals have at best been lackluster. Aluminum has been range-bound for much of the last nine months, as has most of the base metals complex.
Copper has perked up since about November on the back of expectations of a