Aluminum Price Forecasts Now Require a Chrystal Ball

                                                                                         

The fact is that over the course of the past six months the price of aluminum has been in a slow steady decline that has left investors franticly looking for a bottom. However; what has actually led to the drop has led to devisions among the experts that investors have been looking to for answers.

There is one fact that can't be denied and that is that the unprecedented spike in crude oil prices has been a contributing factor as has the decrease in demand caused by the recent U.S. recession. Both of these factors couldn't have come at a worse time either, because at the present time global stocks in aluminum are high as well.

Add to this the sub prime banking crises that has caused lending institutions to begin playing their hands close to their chest with regards to small business loans, that are needed to begin stimulating the economy. Whether or not the current U.S. recession transfers overseas and begins to go global in the near future can have only further negative impact on the demand for aluminum which would in turn drive prices lower.

Whether or not this current trend in aluminum prices begins to make a turn around can only depend on a number of things that are very hard to predict. The first thing that needs to happen is some level of stability must return to the Middle East as it is the current situation that has led speculators to drive up the cost of oil.

Secondly a housing market turnaround in the U.S. market can only help to stimulate U.S. demand for consumer products. Whether or not the current recession is a short, shallow recession or a long deep one is anyones guess but economic activity this spring or the lack of it will be a major indicator.

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