Manufacturing PMIs signal demand remains lacklustre

The decline in the flash manufacturing PMIs for China and the euro-zone in April, published today, triggered fresh falls in industrial commodity prices, sending copper to an 18-month low. We think that this weakness in demand will persist and that rising supply will also drag prices down further.

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