Copper ended down for a second straight day on Thursday as a strengthening dollar and heightened concerns about slowing global economic growth triggered a wave of risk aversion across the commodities complex. In New York, the key September COMEX contract dropped 5.05 cents to settle at $4.0565 per lb. Volumes picked up as the losses mounted. More than 62,000 lots traded late in New York, a third above the 30-day norm, according to preliminary Thomson Reuters data.
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