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Robust copper price prompts switch to aluminum

Frik Els | July 30, 2014 | 2:48 pm Base Metals China Europe Latin America Copper 

In New York trade on Wednesday copper rallied after much stronger than anticipated US GDP figures, reaching a high of $3.2625. Defying market expectations, the copper price dug itself out of a near four-year low struck mid-March of $2.92 a...

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