Week in Review: U.S.-China trade; U.S. automotive sales; LME aluminum load-out queues

• MetalMiner’s Stuart Burns interviewed Stratfor’s Rodger Baker on the state of U.S.-China trade tensions.
• U.S. automotive sales remained down last month but have shown some signs of an incremental recovery.
• Burns weighed in on LME load-out queues and physical delivery premiums for aluminum.
• May construction spending fell 2.1% from the previous month.
• A rare earths processing facility recently opened in Colorado.
• India has put a number of coal mines up for auction.
• Gold prices have been on a tear of late.
• Burns outlined ArcelorMittal’s plan to reach net-zero emissions by 2050.

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