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Price Of Base Metals Drop As China Sets Modest Growth Target

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The majority of base metals saw their price drop on Monday as a result of China’s lower-than-anticipated target for economic growth. This dampened some hopes for a strong recovery in demand for the sector.

The price of one ton of three-month copper on the London Metal Exchange was $8,916.50, and the price of one ton of the most-traded April copper contract on the Shanghai Futures Exchange was 69,330 yuan, or $10,029.51.

The prospect of higher U.S. interest rates and a stronger dollar have lowered metals price , making greenback-priced metals more expensive for holders of other currencies.

Assumptions for a solid Chinese monetary bounce back have been supporting metals costs, yet an unobtrusive development focus of around 5% for from the world’s greatest purchaser of the metal could mean not exactly anticipated genuine utilization for the item.

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Policy sources recently told that a range as high as 6% could be set for this year’s growth target, which was around 5%. This year’s target was at the low end of expectations. Additionally, it falls short of the 5.5% target set last year.

Zinc dropped 1.4% to $3,035 per tonne, tin dropped 1.8% to $24,300 per tonne, and lead gained 0.1% to $2,122 per tonne in the LME.

Tin lost 1.5% to 196,920 yuan per tonne, zinc lost 0.3 percent to 23,210 yuan per tonne, and nickel gained 0.7 percent to 187,890 yuan per tonne.

Two local leaders said on Saturday that Andean communities in Peru will resume blocking a crucial highway used by major copper producers next week, following a truce that had allowed mining companies to resume production.

Price has benefited, albeit modestly, from supply disruptions in Peru, the world’s second-largest producer of mined copper.

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