Yards must have some aggressive buyers out there, because my local yard has gone from .40 for #2 no plugs and .25 for #2 with plugs to .80 no plugs and .60 plugs in less than two weeks. #1 wire is now 1.20. Christmas lights have even gone up from .10 to .15. I'm sitting on about 500 pounds of wire with plugs, so this stuff may be sorted out very quickly.
I keep an eye on copper prices, and figured it would move up some with the latest burst in prices, but not quite this much...I'm guessing one of two things is going on...either they expect more market price increases or lots of copper scrap suppliers are sitting on very small stock of copper and need to raise stock to sell to refiners quickly.
Some of this price movement was related to Trump's victory and calls for infrastructure improvements, part of it was probably just price action, as it was already moving towards the top of resistance. If it does go higher, $3.00 is likely for the next place for it to bump it's head. This move seems very shaky to me though, because economically nothing is really doing better than it was before, hence real need for metals isn't much higher, and similarly until Trump gets in office and gets serious about infrastructure, it is all wishful thinking. If you have been waiting for awhile this could be a good time to get rid of your metal, or at least go half to the yard.
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