Copper closed nearly 2-percent higher on Wednesday to snap a four-day losing streak, lifted by higher global equity markets and festering labour disputes at some high-level mines. In New York, the key December COMEX contract climbed 7.60 cents or 1.9 percent to settle at $4.1320 per lb, near the upper end of the session's range of $4.0605 to $4.1390.
Traders noted the commencement of a two-day strike by workers in Peru's third-biggest copper mine Cerro Verde.
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