Copper market’s biggest whale fuels speculation of a major shift
The world’s single biggest buyer of copper, State Grid Corp. of China, has slowed its purchases of copper wire this year.
Bloomberg reported that Mitsubishi Corporation of Japan plans to almost double its copper output in 2012 after spending USD 5.39 billion to buy a minority stake in Anglo American Plc?s Chilean unit. Mitsubishi said that the Tokyo based trading house?s…