Copper gains as strike enters fifth day at Escondida

The departures came after global prices of the key steel-making ingredient tumbled almost 40%.

A stronger gold price and recent inflows pushed the total assets under management to a month-end peak of $257.3 billion in August.

China's primary aluminum smelters are producing record amounts of metal and the domestic market surplus is spilling out of the country.

The Greenland deposit is the largest known REE project in the world.