US copper jumps 1.7 pct as potential fiscal deal emerges

NEW YORK | Mon Dec 31, 2012 1:10pm EST

U.S. March copper futures on the COMEX division of the New York Mercantile Exchange were up 1.7 percent at $3.6505 per lb at 1:01 p.m. EDT (1701 GMT), having risen just over 1 percent as news of the tentative deal broke.

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