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Is lithium’s brutal comeuppance a buy signal?

Possibly not – it seems a typical commodity boom and bust cycle has set in, and the prudent answer is “not yet”.

Ben Potter
Ben PotterSenior writer

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Comeuppance can be brutal in financial markets, but rarely as brutal as that handed to investors in battery metals last year.

That’s partly because the huge run-up in lithium prices in 2022 may have led some investors to assume the apparently indispensable commodities were entering a new phase of maturity.

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Ben Potter writes on energy, climate change and innovation, and has been Washington correspondent, opinion editor and companies editor. Connect with Ben on Twitter. Email Ben at bpotter@afr.com

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