Tin Gains to Highest Level Since Lehman Failure in 2008

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Tin Gains to Highest Level Since Lehman Failure in 2008

Posted on Jul 27, 2010

Tin, the best performing industrial metal this year, climbed to the highest level since the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. in September 2008 as shrinking inventories signaled steady demand.

The metal for three-month delivery advanced as much as 2.1 percent to $19,800 a metric ton on the London Metal Exchange, and traded at $19,500 at 1 p.m. in Shanghai. That’s the highest intraday price since Sept. 3, 2008, before Lehman’s failure triggered a credit-market seizure and global recession.

LME inventories of the metal used in packaging, solder and cans have shrunk 43 percent this year to 15,370 tons, the lowest level since June 2009. A rally in equity markets, declines in the dollar and optimism that the economic recovery remains intact helped an index of London-traded metals to post the biggest weekly gain since February last week.

“The contractions in stockpiles underline improving demand against supply,” Ran Jun, an analyst at researcher Beijing Antaike Information Development Co., said today. Demand for tin products and electronics has recovered a lot from western countries this year, Ran said.

Exports of tin from Indonesia, the world’s largest producer, dropped 16 percent this year through May compared with the same period last year, Barclays Capital said on July 13. Outbound shipments fell 25.7 percent in June from a year ago, according to Indonesia’s trade ministry.