Copper Prices Fall Amid Concern of Slowing Consumption in China
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Copper prices in New York fell for the second session in three on signs of slowing demand from manufacturers in China, the world&#39;s biggest buyer of the metal.
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- Crude-oil futures fell under $52 for the first time in more than two weeks Thursday, reflecting concerns that China&#39;s first interest-rate hike in nine years will ease energy demand.
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BEIJING - Growth in China's economy slowed slightly in the third quarter, a sign that tightening measures were taking effect, the government said yesterday. Economists said the peak of the latest boom may have passed.
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Fears of economic slowdown and falling demand in China cast a pall over commodity markets on Wednesday and pushed down copper and crude oil prices, but analysts said the nervousness was overdone.
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Business & money: Investors ploughed money into metal on back of concerns about dollar weakness and US slowdown
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Shanghai copper fell nearly 2 percent on Monday as heavy snow in parts of China and next week's long holiday slowed demand, while investors elsewhere braced for a busy week of data that could wreck budding market confidence.
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London Metal Exchange (LME) copper recouped earlier losses to finish Wednesday&#39;s open outcry trade unchanged, getting little direction from a mixed set of US economic data.
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Treasury prices sank on Friday as reports the Chinese authorities might be shedding some of their US debt holdings sparked fears of broader selling from Asian central banks.
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Oil producing â-pec and non-Opec â -ntries are concerned about the recent heavy fall in the value of dollar, in which international crude oil sales are priced.
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The value of the dollar fell sharply yesterday, as did the stock market, after the Chinese government signaled that it might slow its purchases of U.S. assets.
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Growth in China's main indicator for inflation slowed to 4.3 percent in October, significantly lower than the 5.2 percent annual increase the month before, the government reported Friday.
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The outlook for China's once sizzling auto market has cooled, prompting both foreign and domestic automakers to scramble to undercut their competitors by slashing prices by up to 20 percent.
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China&#39;s domestic demand remains strong but underlying inflationary pressures are limited. This reduces the possibility of further drastic macroeconomic measures to cool down the
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China's consumer inflation slowed in January, according to official figures show.
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China&#39;s policy of fixing the value of its currency to the dollar has made government efforts to slow its economy more difficult, the US Treasury Department said in a semi-annual report
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Asian markets plunged Wednesday on growing speculation the U.S. economy Â a vital export market Â is sliding into a recession that could lead to a global slowdown.
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World copper prices declined a further 2  percent on Thursday on selling by hedge funds that has toppled  the key industrial metal from 16-year peaks hit on Monday.