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HeadLine : London copper slips on stronger dollar
Date : Mar 30 2017
Three-month copper on the London Metal Exchange had slipped 0.5 percent to $5,880 a tonne by 0218 GMT. That pared a 0.6-percent gain from the previous session, when prices hit their highest since March 20 at $5,927.50.

U.S. ECONOMY: With the U.S. economy having now "largely attained" a full recovery from recession, the Federal Reserve can raise interest rates three or more times this year, a centrist Fed policymaker said on Wednesday.

China's economy, the world's second largest, will likely expand 6.8 percent in the first quarter of 2017, the official Xinhua agency quoted a government think tank as saying on Wednesday.

Chile's Escondida named a new president to run the BHP Billiton-operated mine on Thursday, days after the company failed to clinch a wage deal with workers after an historically long strike.

Korea Zinc Inc, the world's third-largest zinc smelter, has agreed to take a 15 percent drop in annual processing fees for 2017 as smelters grapple with a dearth of mine supply, Metal Bulletin reported.

Source:Reuters
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