Copper futures settle higher on market anxiety over potential copper tariff

20 Mar 2025 Evaluate
Copper futures settled higher on Wednesday amid market anxieties over US President Donald Trumps’ potential tariffs on copper imports. However, some gains were limited by the firm American currency overseas after the US Federal Reserve kept interest rates unchanged as expected and raised its core inflation forecast for this year.

Copper futures for May delivery rose $0.0835 to settle at $5.10 a pound on the Comex metals division of New York Mercantile Exchange. Copper on the London Metal Exchange was up by 0.84 percent at $9,987.50 a ton.

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