Chart of the week: red metal is red hot

After several poor years, copper futures have bounced sharply. They rose by a fifth this summer to a three-year high close to $7,000 a tonne. Growth in China, which takes almost half the world's copper, looks solid, while India's appetite for the red metal is growing by around 8% a year.

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