Futures for copper gained today as Chinese stocks rallied following the previous crash. The Shanghai Stock Exchange Composite Index climbed 3.5 percent during the Wednesday’s trading session while the index had sunk more than 8 percent on Monday. China has big influence on copper as the nation is the world’s biggest consumer of the industrial metal. September contract for delivery of copper gained 0.5 percent to $2.4145 per pound as of 10:00 GMT on COMEX today.
Meanwhile, gold was little changed as traders wait for the end of the Federal Reserve’s
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