LME WEEK ASIA: Weak commodity prices offer trading houses opportunity to diversify

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The continued weakness in commodity prices could provideopportunities for Asian trading houses to acquire physicals assets atrelatively cheap prices and allow them to diversify their businessmodels, Metal Bulletin learned at LME Week Asia.“There is very little to do if we continue to focus only on trading.Rather, we think it may now be a good time to get into the [mining]industry itself, so we are looking [to acquire] some physical zinc andlead assets,” one executive with a Hong Kong-based tradingcompany said.