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Global demand woes to send base metals even lower

Despite the price of many industrial metals having plunged by a quarter in recent months, we believe that crumbling demand growth will lead to prices falling further. However, in the case of aluminium and especially tin, cuts in supply from the largest producing countries of these metals, China and Indonesia respectively, should mean that the drop in price will be smaller than for other base metals.

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