Copper price: Most popular stories of 2025

Copper prices hit a fresh all-time high above $12,000 a tonne in London and $5.60 a pound in Chicago this week, capping a year characterized by production outages, trade dislocations, mergers and acquisitions and ever more bullish predictions for the bellwether metal.    

Copper is on course for its biggest annual gain since 2009 amid extreme volatility and articles about the metal were some of our most read posts of 2025, among stiff competition from gold, which has enjoyed its own breakout year.