China caps smelting production in Xinjiang and sells more aluminum from reserves

Special Note: HARBOR’s Daily Aluminum Commentary will not be published on Monday, August 30, as the LME will be closed due to the Summer Bank Holiday in the UK.

1. LME PRICE ALERT: China to cap production in Xinjiang but unload more state reserves.

2. LME prices reach fresh three year-highs amid mixed signals in China and the US.

3. SHFE aluminum prices rally to a fourteen-year high on supply-side controls.

4. LME INVENTORY UPDATE. LME Asian warehouses experience further buildups as backwardation bites.

5. EUROPEAN SCRAP MARKET. SCARCITY BITES: No relief for fierce fight for extrusion scrap units.

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6. GREEN ALUMINUM MONITOR: Trading houses join the Green Revolution.

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7. LME SPREADS ALERT. LME Cash–3M backwardation sharpest in three years as tightness ahead of September intensifies.

More details in full report.