Aluminium / MET.ALUM

LME aluminium, the most energy-intensive base metal. Smelter power costs set the global price floor. At the latest reading, Aluminium prints a spot of $3,563/t — a move of ▼2.58% over the past twenty-four hours and ▲1.80% across the trailing thirty days.

The v3.2 stress index places MET.ALUM at 0.55 — a watch reading on a composite that blends price momentum, inventory cover, supplier concentration and geopolitical exposure. The metric is recomputed on every ingestion cycle, and the weekly delta is the line worth tracking rather than the absolute level.

For operators, the question is not the spot itself but the buffer behind it. A tightening reading on Aluminium compounds with any incident on a shared transit route or producer, and the cascade is rarely linear. The scenarios below carry MET.ALUM as an explicit input — each one is wargamed and reviewed against this commodity's exposure profile.