Spot Market Was Sluggish During the Week, and Premiums and Discounts Continued to Decline This Week [SMM Guangdong Spot Cargo Weekly Review]

The Loss-Making Trend in Secondary Lead Continued, with Most Smelters Taking Holidays and Halting Shipments [SMM Secondary Refined Lead Weekly Review]

Concentrated Holidays Ahead of Chinese New Year, Brass Billet Operating Rate Pulls Back MoM [SMM Brass Billet Market Weekly Review]

The recycling market for waste lead-acid batteries is stagnating, and the trading atmosphere for secondary crude lead remains sluggish. [SMM Scrap Battery & Secondary Crude Lead Weekly Review]

Copper prices fell sharply, with some downstream buyers making small restocking purchases, but overall trading remained sluggish [SMM South China Spot Copper]