How are Chinese metals industries coping with the virus?

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Via Shanghai Metals Market:

Downstream producers of the nonferrous metal industry in China have announced to postpone their resumption after the Chinese New Year as the government extended the seven-day CNY holiday due to the novel coronavirus outbreak. Most smelters, however, continue to produce during the holiday, and logistics and warehousing enterprises keep most of their businesses running normally, a SMM survey showed.

The novel coronavirus was first identified in central Chinese city Wuhan, Hubei province as Wuhan health authorities confirmed 27 cases of pneumonia caused by the novel coronavirus in a statement on December 31, 2019.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.