Industrial luster tarnished in a cutthroat global economy

Traditionally, precious metals have commanded much higher prices than widespread business metals.

Commodity sectors represented in the Index include agriculture, energy, metals, precious metals and water.

Historically, precious metals have commanded much higher prices than common.

Precious metals are harder to come by and are more valuable than industrial metals.

Precious metals prices have historically been much higher than more common industrial metals and have a history of continued growth.

China is the world's top consumer of industrial metals.

In the past year, the value of industrial metals has collapsed.

This will also be true for most industrial metals.

The London Metal Exchange helps set prices for industrial metals, including cobalt.

I hope that the metal industry will also follow this trend.

The London Metal Exchange helps set prices for industrial metals, including cobalt.

Aluminum became the best-performing industrial metal in 2017

Industrial metals remained fairly stable throughout the year.

A poor performance from industrial metals this week.