The non-ferrous metal sector has experienced a sharp pullback, with the Guotai Non-ferrous Metal ETF (159881) declining over 5%. Focus on the industrial metal differentiation and macroeconomic pressures.

Western Securities pointed out that in the industrial metals sector, ongoing geopolitical conflicts are intensifying, and the risk of aluminum smelters halting production is increasing. The market generally predicts that the National Development and Reform Commission’s encouragement of large alumina backbone enterprises to pursue mergers and restructuring will accelerate industry chain integration, forcing small and medium capacities lacking resource support, with inefficient energy use or high costs, to exit. In the long term, this will help improve the current overcapacity and severe supply-demand imbalance caused by internal competition. Regarding copper, focus primarily on its financial attributes, as supply-side disruptions and potential “anti-internal competition” acceleration at the smelting end may occur. Overall, geopolitical conflicts are pushing up oil prices, market concerns about inflation rebounding, and the Federal Reserve’s rate cut expectations are cooling down, putting recent metal prices under correction pressure.

The China Southern Gold ETF (159881) tracks the China Securities Gold Index (930708), which selects listed companies involved in the exploration, smelting, and processing of non-ferrous metals from the Shanghai and Shenzhen markets as index samples. The constituent stocks cover multiple segments including copper, aluminum, lead-zinc, precious metals, energy metals, and rare earths, reflecting the overall performance of domestic listed companies in the non-ferrous metals industry.

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