| Investors are betting the price of copper will fall further as the US dollar continues to strengthen and global economic growth shows few signs of recovery. Yet a reduction in mine supply last year has left the market almost balanced, meaning any pick-up in demand or further supply reduction could tip the price into positive territory, leaving those short the metal on the wrong side of the trade.
At 16 per cent of the London Metal Exchange market, the largest market in the world for metals trading, contracts betting that copper will fall are at the highest level since the exchange started publishing the data in July. On the Shanghai Futures Exchange, the number of similar contracts has jumped by 180 per cent since the beginning of December...............................................Full Article: Source
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