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The benefits of hedging minor metals price risk

Members of the cobalt and molybdenum industries can benefit from managing price risk on the LME to achieve a variety of outcomes:
  • As protection against price movements
  • To offer long-term fixed price sales and lock in a margin
  • Improve budget forecasts of costs and profits
  • Turn your stock into cash or security for finance

Using the LME also offers the opportunity to:

  • Access a transparent reference price for use in negotiations
  • Provide additional services to customers to gain a competitive edge
  • Protect physical stock against a fall in price
  • Swap physical material on a location and brand basis
  • Hedge physical purchases in times of production difficulty
  • Access the Exchange’s delivery mechanism as a source of material in times of extreme shortage, and as a channel to sell in times of surplus

The presence of a futures market for cobalt and molybdenum offers a number of benefits to those at all stages of the supply chain. Find out how each of the participants in the supply chain can benefit:

 
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