Monthly Metals Index Report: Price Trends and Indexes - April 2025
To help you understand month-to-month metal price trends across industries and within specific metal markets, MetalMiner issues the Monthly Metals Index (MMI) report (including 10 metal price charts) on 10 sub-indexes:
- Aluminum
- Copper
- Stainless
- Raw Steels
- Rare Earths
- Automotive
- Construction
- Renewables
- Global Precious Metals
- Grain-Oriented Electrical Steel
This Report Helps Metal Purchasing Companies...
Track monthly inflation for each metal industry category, including copper, stainless steel, aluminum, steel and precious metals.
Access an additional contracting mechanism that can be used when negotiating with suppliers.
Understand how they are performing against the wider market and their competitors.
The Challenge: Unpredictable
Metal Prices
Volatile metal prices prove a constant headache. Metal costs can swing wildly month to month, throwing budgets and production plans into disarray. Procurement teams struggle with questions like: When is the right time to buy? How do we avoid paying peak prices? Without the right data, many manufacturers end up paying too much when prices rise, or missing out on cost reductions when prices fall.
These price surprises erode profit margins, complicate quoting and pricing of products, and make it hard to forecast costs.
The Solution: MetalMiner’s Monthly Metals Index Report
The Monthly Metals Index (MMI) Report is a free monthly report that translates complex metal markets into a simple, actionable index format. Each month, MetalMiner’s experts analyze pricing trends across 10 key metal categories and deliver a concise report with 10 metal price indexes and charts, covering everything from carbon steel and stainless steel to aluminum, copper, rare earths, automotive alloys, construction materials, grain-oriented electrical steel, renewables metals, and precious metals.
In every report, you’ll see whether prices for each category moved up, down, or moved sideways compared to the previous month, along with by-how-much and expert commentary on why.
How You Can Use the MetalMiner Monthly Metals Index (MMI) Report
Use this report and metal price charts as an economic indicator, much like the ISM Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) or the BLS Producer Price Index (PPI), for contracting, forecasting, predictive analytics and tracking which commodities have the greatest volatility. The MetalMiner Monthly Metal Index report offers news and analysis for 10 key metal group price trends, including aluminum, steel and copper.
