LME Digest 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
- 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.
- LME tick size enhancements
- Introduction to cash-settled futures
- Statistical analysis of LME markets - part I
- Proprietary trading firms and the London Metal Exchange
- Physical and financial hedging beginners guide
- LME SHFE cross market arbitrage
- What are implied markets?
- Financial investors on the LME
- The Asian connection
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
- Nurturing Talent Pipelines in the Mining Sector
- 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.