Nickel
Base metal used mainly in stainless steel, with a growing share going into lithium-ion battery cathodes. LME nickel trading was suspended and a day of trades cancelled in March 2022 after an extreme short squeeze.
This asset is traded on the venue linked above — a typed relationship in the dataset, not a name that happened to match.
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- Symbol
- NI
- Type
- Commodity
- Category
- Industrial metal
- Quote currency
- USD
- Primary venue
- London Metal Exchange
- Issuer
- —
- Identifier
- ISO 4217 covers precious metals and stops there. This one has no identifier standard at all: the symbol shown is an exchange contract root, which names a futures series rather than the underlying, and is not a code anyone else is obliged to recognise.
Approximate reference values from public sources · seed-0.7 · marketcap-1 · 2026-08-30 · not real-time. See data & methodology.
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