METALS-Copper drops 1.5 pct as U.S.-China trade war raises demand concerns
October 16, 2018 at 03:12 AM EDT
Copper slid 1.5 percent on Tuesday with the market facing its biggest one-day loss in more than a week, as an escalating trade war between the United States and the world's top industrial metals consumer China weighed. Three-month copper on the London Metal Exchange lost $93 at $6,208 tonne as of 0708 GMT. The most-traded copper contract on the Shanghai Futures Exchange finished down 1.2 percent at 50,190 yuan ($
