LONDON: Prices of copper and most other industrial metals fell on Wednesday as data from China, the biggest consumer, pointed to slowing economic growth and therefore weaker demand for metals.
Benchmark copper on the London Metal Exchange (LME) was down 1.9% at $9,230 a tonne at 1705 GMT after falling to $9,135, its lowest since Oct. 7.
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