RE: End of year target8 Oct 2025 14:36
London’s metal traders might want to hold on to their hard hats.
Citi has turned more bullish on both copper and tin, arguing that the market is starting to look beyond short-term demand worries and towards a tighter supply picture.
its latest Metal Matters note, the bank lifts its near-term copper forecast to $11,000 a tonne, up from $10,500, and sees the red metal averaging $12,000 by the middle of 2026.
That outlook is supported by what Citi calls “growing confidence” that prices can break through cyclical headwinds as the longer-term demand story reasserts itself.
A combination of energy transition spending, recovering industrial activity and slowing mine supply could, it says, bring copper to $12,000 sooner than expected.