MUMBAI, Dec 5 (Reuters) - India's copper futures extended losses and opened lower on Friday as slowing demand and continuous negative data from major metal consuming nations reaffirmed fears of a deepening global recession, analysts said.
Prices of the red metal have fallen close to 12 percent since the start of this week and more than 55 percent since hitting a year high in July 2008.
At 10.29 a.m., the benchmark February copper MCCG9 on the Multi Commodity Exchange of India (MCX) was down 1.03 percent at 168.85
Copper prices are expected to stay down during the day on lack of fundamental support, analysts added.
At 10.30 a.m., December zinc MZIZ8 was down 2.35 percent at 56.2 rupees and December lead MLDZ8 was down 0.41 percent at 48.85 rupees per kg.
(Reporting by Nandita Bose; Editing by Sunil Nair)
