LONDON, Sept 22 (Reuters) - Copper firmed on Wednesday, lifted by a weaker dollar after the U.S. Federal Reserve said it was ready to provide more support for the economy, but traders said the metal lacked fresh impetus to press higher. "We had a weak close yesterday, theoretically copper should be on its way down," one LME trader said. "There isn't any trigger for copper to go any higher, none at all." The metal, used extensively in construction and wiring, has hit a five month high of $,7750 a tonne on Monday. Traders said liquidity was thinned due to the Chinese holidays. The Federal Reserve on Tuesday inched closer to fresh steps to bolster a sluggish U.S. recovery, saying it stood ready to provide more support for the economy and expressing stronger concerns about low inflation. [ID:nN20109053] PRICES * Three-month copper CMCU3 on the London Metal Exchange was trading at $7,715 a tonne compared with $7,680 a tonne at the close on Tuesday. * Aluminium CMAL3 was at $2,186 a tonne from $2,175 a tonne. DATA/EVENTS * Eurozone industrial new orders due at 0900 GMT. * LONDON - Bank of England (BoE) to publish minutes of Sept. 8-9 Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting. * BERLIN - Germany Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble to speak at CDU Meeting on Budget - 1600 GMT * CARDIFF, UK - The Bank of England's chief economist and monetary policy committee member Spencer Dale speaks at Cardiff Business School - 1730 GMT * NEW YORK - Prime Minister of Greece, George Papandreou, Speaks at Lunch Meeting of the Economic Club of New York - 1615 GMT * WASHINGTON - Assistant Treasury Secretary for Financial Institutions Michael Barr speaks before the Corporation for Enterprise Development (CFED) biennial conference, "The Assets Movement at Its Moment: Creating the Save & Invest Economy" - 1800 GMT * ANTWERP, BELGIUM - Metal Bulletin's 4th Steel Logistics conference (to Sept 22). Link: here [ECI/US] [ECI/EURO] [ECI/GB] [M/DIARY] [MTL/DIARY] MARKET NEWS * The dollar fell on Wednesday to its weakest level on the yen since Japan intervened last week, fuelling speculation of more intervention after the Federal Reserve raised expectations it would print more dollars to help the U.S. economy. [FRX/] * Expectations that the Federal Reserve is moving closer toward printing more money to support the U.S. economy lifted both stocks and bonds. [MKTS/GLOB] * Oil rose past $75 on Wednesday, as a weaker dollar allowed it to shrug off an industry report showing surprise gains in U.S. inventories. [O/R] * European stock index futures rose early on Wednesday, indicating a stronger start for equities, as sentiment improved after the Federal Reserve inched closer to fresh steps to bolster a sluggish U.S. recovery. [.EU] FUNDAMENTALS * Panama is poised to repeal a law preventing foreign government investment in mining projects, clearing the way for a $5 billion plan by Canada's Inmet Mining (IMN.TO) to build the largest copper mine in Central America. [ID:nN20269135] * Rescuers could free 33 miners weeks earlier than expected as drills work around the clock to bore an escape shaft to the men trapped underground for 47 days. [ID:nN21140313] * Star commodities trader Paul Touradji's hedge fund fell again in August after a strong rise in July, performance data on Tuesday showed, highlighting a difficult year for many money managers. [ID:nN21198324] TECHNICALS * Copper support at $7,500, resistance $7,800 and 14-day RSI at 62.6. * Aluminium support at $1,980, resistance at $2,190 and 14-day RSI 62.4. For related news and prices, click on the codes in brackets: LME price overview RING= LME aluminium <0#MAL:> LME copper <0#MCU:> Asia physicals COMEX copper futures <0#HG:> Europe physicals Scrap metal prices BASEU3 LME plastics RELATED NEWS AND OTHER TOPICS Base/minor metals news [MET] All metals news [MTL] Metals summary [GLANCE/MTL] Scrap metals news [SCRAP/EUR] Index of summaries [GLANCE/] All commodities news [C] Metals diary [MTL/DIARY] Weather news [WEA] Foreign exchange rates FX=S SPEED GUIDES COMMODS METAL1 REUTERS For Reuters Metals Production Database click on URL below mpd.session.rservices.com

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