The most-traded August copper contract on the Shanghai Futures Exchange fell 1.1 percent to 48,120 yuan ($7,700) a tonne on Wednesday. A private sector survey showed an improvement in China's factory activity, but overall factory growth was still contracting, undermining confidence the country is getting back on track, said Helen Lau, a mining analyst at UOB-Kay Hian Securities in Hong Kong.
"The overall economy is mixed, not on a firmer footing ... and at the same time summer is around the corner when fabrication rates at (copper) cable plants will start to slow," she said. "We are not surprised to see this consolidation."
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