Base metals fell back towards their opening prices in Monday’s official session on the London Metal Exchange, after prices pushed higher in early trading. LME metals all rose in early trading on a jump on equity markets and a weaker dollar. “Today’s strong recovery on the stock market gave good support for metals futures to move up,” a trader in Shanghai said. But prices fell back by the officials as the euro gave up ground on the dollar. The dollar was trading at around 1.250 to the euro on Friday from 1.227 in mid-week, helping arrest price falls that had seen copper give up $500 per tonne in a week. But the dollar...
