SHANGHAI, Mar 15 - Although end-user demand is slowly recovering, fluctuations in copper prices will have a major impact on consumption increase.
The recent US banking crisis has hit copper prices. It is expected that with the market panic subsiding, the slow recovery of consumption will give support to copper prices.
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