Needless to say copper continues to defy gravity.

I defy gravity.

Plastics are being used instead of copper tube, aluminum is replacing copper conductors, steel/tin, plastics and glass are being used instead of aluminum packaging and plastics and different types of coated steel are being used instead of galvanized steel.

The reversal...puts copper prices right back into the earlier consolidation zone, which undoes much of the rebound from last week.

This is no doubt a bullish factor. Copper, lead and zinc are the three metals that are suffering supply disruption from strike action.

Onstage, he would lean way over into the microphone. He seemed to defy gravity and you'd swear he was going to fall over, but he never did.