SHANGHAI, Feb 20 (SMM) - In Guangdong, spot quotes trended lower last week mainly due to growing inventory driven by weakening downstream consumption. As of Friday, total inventories in Guangdong stood at 58,800 mt, a growth of 3,300 mt from a week earlier.
The increase in orders at downstream cable plants was insignificant. Meanwhile, copper rod produced with copper scrap was more desirable due to a wider price spread between copper scrap and copper cathode. Consequently, some small and medium-sized copper rod plants halted their production early last week. SMM understood that more copper rod plants will cut the production this week.

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