Lead inventories will take time to reflect any lower prices in raw materials. Dealers with inventory that they bought when prices to them were above $40 a bag will not be selling that at much below cost anytime soon. Metal could go right back up and we have a very limited number of places to buy lead these days. SO I am afraid that the market will show us again that price tend to rise faster than they fall and any real major improvements in prices may be loan in the future. Plus I bet that factory shells are high priced to stay.
