FOCUS: Tight market, higher premiums expected in European aluminium market after US sanctions on Rusal

摘要

The physical aluminium market in Europe is expected to turn bullish because of significant supply tightness, with more market participants likely to turn away from using metal supplied by Russian aluminium producer Rusal.The US Treasury on Friday April 6 targeted a group of Russian government officials, oligarchs and the companies they control for reasons including Russia's involvement in the annexation of Ukraine's Crimea peninsula and in the unrest in Syria, the department said.