Logistics, transport trouble keeps copper prices on the downside amidst other base metals’ gains

30.03.2020

Copper prices stabilised close to 4-year lows on Friday as disruption to supply caused by shutdowns of mines and shipping routes began to offset the huge hit to demand from the coronavirus outbreak.

Benchmark copper was down 0.2% at $4,795 a tonne at 1700 GMT on Friday and roughly unchanged this...