While the green transition and AI-related use will boost demand for industrial metals over the rest of this decade, we expect this to largely be offset by a substantial contraction in demand from China’s construction sector. Against this backdrop, and with supply proving resilient, we forecast copper and aluminium prices to fall in the coming years and be below consensus expectations during the 2020s.
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