{"id":55504,"date":"2016-12-05T09:50:10","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T14:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=55504"},"modified":"2016-12-05T09:50:10","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T14:50:10","slug":"hedge-funds-make-5-billion-bet-on-rising-copper-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2016\/hedge-funds-make-5-billion-bet-on-rising-copper-price.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge funds make $5 billion bet on rising copper price"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n(Mining.com) The copper price hit an 18-month high on an intraday basis last week as global manufacturing activity continues to pick up and hopes about US president-elect Trump’s $500 billion infrastructure plans lift sentiment.<\/p>\n

In Asian trade on Monday copper for delivery in March, the most active contract, jumped 1% to exchange hands for $2.6515 per pound ($5,845 a tonne) on the Comex market in New York.<\/p>\n

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(Mining.com) The copper price hit an 18-month high on an intraday basis last week as global manufacturing activity continues to pick up and hopes about US president-elect Trump’s $500 billion infrastructure plans lift sentiment. In Asian trade on Monday copper […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55505,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55504\/revisions\/55505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}