Commodities Comment:Slowdown in global car sales exposes palladium’s fragility

Tin was the big loser in Thursday’s LME trading, falling 1.9% to back below$15,000/t. The surge in Chinese ore and concentrate imports from Myanmarhas been the key disruptive element to this market, and many existingoperations are likely to find it difficult to sustain production at current pricelevels