LME Shortens Asian Benchmark Pricing Timeframe to Enhance Price Discovery

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The London Metal Exchange, which is now owned by Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing, has shortened the pricing period for its Asian Benchmark -- which generates a reference price for three-month futures for aluminium, copper and zinc, based on the volume-weighted average price over the set pricing period -- from 15 minutes to five minutes before the UK market open, to focus liquidity and enhance price discovery in response to increased trading volumes during Asian trading hours on the exchange's

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