This Working Paper presents a brief but comprehensive graphical overview of copper contained in international trade, from copper concentrates through to finished products. Extensive data checks and a simple consolidation method were performed before visualizing the data on world maps. While data...

We use high-frequency data to examine the effects of introducing an additional night trading session of four hours at the Shanghai Futures Exchange for Copper and Aluminum futures in December 2013. This additional trading session is shown to cause a structural break in the intraday behavior of...