Copper’s Wild Week Throws Spotlight on Straining World Economy

  • Copper is caught between tight supplies and demand worries
  • Global stocks are under pressure even outside LME warehouses
Photographer: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg
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For months, the copper market has been caught in a tug of war between steadily shrinking supplies on one side, and an increasingly strained global economy on the other.

This week, the rope snapped.