Lead
Lead decreased 132.50 USD/MT or 5.67% since the beginning of 2023, according to trading on a contract for difference (CFD) that tracks the benchmark market for this commodity.
Historically, Lead reached an all time high of 3989 in October of 2007. Lead - data, forecasts, historical chart - was last updated on January of 2023.
Lead is expected to trade at 2178.83 USD/MT by the end of this quarter, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. Looking forward, we estimate it to trade at 2028.88 in 12 months time.
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Lead
Lead is a soft, malleable, ductile, bluish-white, dense metallic element, extracted from galena and found in ore with zinc, silver and copper. 80 percent of modern lead usage is in the production of batteries. Lead is also often used to line tanks that store corrosive liquids and as a shield against X and gamma-ray radiation. The biggest producers of lead are Australia, China and USA, followed by Peru, Canada, Mexico, Sweden, Morocco, South Africa and North Korea. Lead Futures are available for trading in The London Metal Exchange (LME). The standard contact has a size of 25 tonnes.
Actual | Previous | Highest | Lowest | Dates | Unit | Frequency | ||
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2204.00 | 2213.25 | 3989.00 | 357.00 | 1993 - 2023 | USD/MT | Daily |
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