$ shortage commodity get MET.MOLY > spot: $24.50/lb > stress_index: 0.51 CAUTION > updated 14:23 UTC
BRENT $84.27 ▲ TTF €31.50 ▼ OPEC_SP 3.8 mb/d ● SPR_US 372.4 Mb FAO_FFPI 121.4 ▲
Molybdenum, the alloying metal for high-strength and stainless steels. A by-product caught in copper-mine economics.
Molybdenum, the alloying metal for high-strength and stainless steels. A by-product caught in copper-mine economics. At the latest reading, Molybdenum prints a spot of $24.50/lb — a move of ▲0.80% over the past twenty-four hours and ▲5.40% across the trailing thirty days.
The v3.2 stress index places MET.MOLY at 0.51 — a caution 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 Molybdenum compounds with any incident on a shared transit route or producer, and the cascade is rarely linear. The scenarios below carry MET.MOLY as an explicit input — each one is wargamed and reviewed against this commodity's exposure profile.
No active scenario currently carries Molybdenum as an explicit input.