After Monday's sell-off, copper witnessed good support
from Asia despite the continuously lower
drifting crude oil that could have
triggered another bout of selling. However, a spate of news and data with most of them being positive for
copper perked up the sentiments and the
red metal made a run towards $5,800.
Copper closed near the day's high at $5,749. Crude oil did a U-turn when the International Energy
Agency revised upward its 2007 world oil
demand estimate due to the growth in
China and the Middle East.