Joe Wallace, Wall Street Journal, highlights the price rally in tin, here…
”Coronavirus has constrained supplies of raw metal coming out of Indonesia and elsewhere, while a snarl-up in container-shipping markets has led to weekslong delays in transporting tin from Southeast Asia and Latin America.”…
“Behind tin’s comeback is a surge in sales of consumer electronics such as laptops, cellphones and televisions during the pandemic. Solder, the melted metal used to attach semiconductor chips to circuit boards and electronic devices, accounts for about half of global tin demand, said James Willoughby, analyst at the International Tin Association.”
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