Alcoa added 0.6 percent to $16.19, while AK Steel gained 0.7 percent to $22.31. Freeport-McMoRan, the world’s largest publicly traded copper producer, climbed 0.6 percent to $82.29. Copper jumped to a 15-month high on the London Metal Exchange as workers at the world’s second-biggest mine voted to go on strike. Aluminum, zinc, lead, nickel and tin also advanced.
–Courtesy of www.bloomberg.com
Alcoa, AK Steel
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