LME Insight provides timely updates and comment on specific issues and trends for the metals market.
Physical services
The London Metal Exchange has provided the physical metals community – those who make metal and those who make things out of metal – with a number of key services since 1877.
- LME and Metalshub: developing trusted commodity spot reference prices New
- Price discovery models demystified
- LME responsible sourcing
- Commodity financing: how hedging benefits both borrowers and lender
- LME brands and brand listing
- How are the LME prices referenced in physical contracts
- The role of premiums and discounts in pricing of industrial metals contracts
Metals
The London Metal Exchange is the trading and price-formation venue of choice for industrial metals globally. Learn more about the metals traded on the LME and their influence in the market.
Trading
The London Metal Exchange is the world centre for industrial metals trading. Learn more about the options available to traders on the LME.
Sustainability
As part of our regular Sustainability Spotlight newsletters we invite leading experts in their fields to offer their insights on significant topics related to the sustainable transition.
- A responsible transition
- A smile and a hammer: the fortitude of women in artisanal mining
- Corruption in the extractives industry
- Greater transparency in sustainability reporting
- Nature positive
- The Copper Mark
- The neglected areas of aluminium sustainability mitigating bauxite residue
- We have work to do paradoxes in responsible sourcing
Clearing
LME Clear is the clearing house for the London Metal Exchange. Gain an insight into clearing at the LME.