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Improvement in China not enough to boost metal prices

Industrial metals prices have remained weak today, despite the improvement in the flash PMI for China, which rose to a six month high. We continue to doubt that the rebound in China economy will last, but any slight improvement in demand for metals is likely to be overwhelmed by large increases in supply over the next year or two.

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