SHANGHAI, Mar 22 (SMM) – Copper stocks across Shanghai bonded areas continued to grow this week and stood at 557,000 mt as of Friday March 22, up 15,500 mt from Friday March 15, SMM data showed.
This was up 115,800 mt from February 1, the last Friday before the Lunar New Year holiday.
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