{"id":19044,"date":"2026-10-26T06:50:44","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T06:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=19044"},"modified":"2026-10-26T06:50:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T06:50:44","slug":"copper-extends-drop-as-ai-stocks-weigh-ahead-of-fed-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=19044","title":{"rendered":"Copper extends drop as AI stocks weigh ahead of Fed meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Copper extended last week\u2019s drop as artificial intelligence stocks came under further pressure, sapping risk appetite ahead of the Federal Reserve\u2019s policy meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The metal used in data centres and power infrastructure fell as much as 0.6% in London on Monday, following a second weekly decline. Stocks continued to struggle as investors braced for more earnings from megacap tech companies and clues on whether the recent strains on the AI trade will persist.<\/p>\n<p>Investors are also weighing stubbornly high energy prices ahead of the Fed meeting on Wednesday. The market is pricing in a nearly 10% chance that the central bank will raise rates then, although bets of a hike before year-end are much stronger at over 70%. Higher borrowing costs are a headwind for economic growth and commodities demand.<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>Still, copper supplies in China remain tight due to falling domestic output and the global flow of metal to the US in anticipation of import tariffs. The Yangshan premium, a gauge of demand for imported copper, extended gains to its highest level in data going back to 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Doubts that the US will end up imposing levies, and weakening Chinese consumption going into winter, could help ease the market\u2019s tightness, said Wu Kunjin, head of base metals research at Minmetals Futures Co.<\/p>\n<p>Copper fell 0.5% to $14 247.50 a ton on the London Metal Exchange as of 11:37 a.m. in Shanghai. Other metals were flat to lower, with aluminium down 0.4% and nickel falling 0.9%.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2026 Bloomberg<\/p>\n<p>                        #Copper #extends #drop #stocks #weigh #ahead #Fed #meeting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Copper extended last week\u2019s drop as artificial intelligence stocks came under further pressure, sapping risk&#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":[839,2102,487,5717,1508,1244,221,1496],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19044"}],"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=19044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}