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Select base metals may continue to rally in 2021 over weakening dollar

Zinc, aluminium poised for correction as prices move ahead of fundamentals

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Aluminium on the LME is at around $1,930 a tonne at present

Aditi Divekar Mumbai
With stimulus packages being announced across the globe amid the Covid-19 pandemic, base metals are seen benefiting from the same.
 
Copper, zinc and nickel have been rallying for the last 8 months as a broad-based weakening of the dollar made commodities cheaper for holders of other currencies. Besides, supply constraints from the pandemic-hit Latin American nations provided support to the metals, said brokerages.
 
Recently, the announcements of successful trials of multiple vaccines have also given a sentimental boost to the riskier assets such as crude oil and industrial metals, they said.
 
“We expect copper to cross $7,500 per tonne mark