{"id":17360,"date":"2026-10-02T06:11:56","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T06:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=17360"},"modified":"2026-10-02T06:11:56","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T06:11:56","slug":"copper-heads-for-weekly-loss-as-high-energy-costs-limit-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=17360","title":{"rendered":"Copper heads for weekly loss as high energy costs limit demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Copper headed for the biggest weekly loss since May as high energy costs and China\u2019s stuttering industrial sector threatened to curb demand.<\/p>\n<p>Futures on the London Metal Exchange rose above $14 300 a ton on Friday as the dollar dipped, but were still set to finish the week about 2% lower. Gains in oil prices driven by latest developments in the US-Iran war, as well as data indicating industrial weakness in top consumer China, have weighed on the metal in recent sessions.<\/p>\n<p>Still, prices are consolidating at relatively high levels with a broader backdrop of supply tightness. The threat of US tariffs on refined metal has seen traders shift hundreds of thousands of tons to America, threatening shortages elsewhere. A major mine in Chile is also facing strike action.<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>The upside for base metals may be limited, as long as the Middle East war lingers, analysts from Bank of America Corp. wrote in a note. \u201cThat said, we acknowledge that falling aluminium, copper and nickel supply should give support to prices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>US jobs data for September, which is expected to show a sharp slowdown in hiring, is due later on Friday. That should reduce the case for more monetary tightening by the Federal Reserve this month, which is potentially positive for copper.<\/p>\n<p>Copper rose 0.5% on the LME to $14 313.50 a ton as of 11:58 a.m. Singapore time. Aluminium declined 02% and tin fell 0.7%. Iron ore fell 1.3% to a two-year low of $91.30 a ton in Singapore The Dalian Commodity Exchange in China was closed for a public holiday.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2026 Bloomberg<\/p>\n<p>                        #Copper #heads #weekly #loss #high #energy #costs #limit #demand<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Copper headed for the biggest weekly loss since May as high energy costs and China\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[2102,1364,1474,526,1652,2660,7496,3800,2864],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17360"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}