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Key calls for metals in 2021

After staging a stellar recovery in 2020, there is considerable momentum in metals prices as we embark on the new year. That said, while prices may rise further in the near term, we think that they will start to ease back in the second half of 2021 as China withdraws its economic stimulus and supply picks up.

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