The most-active September copper contract on the Shanghai Futures Exchange rose 1.5 percent to 56,210 yuan ($8,900) per tonne on Monday, after closing up 0.4 percent in the previous session. Shanghai copper prices have shed about 3.5 percent so far this month.
"News such as the more conciliatory stance towards austerity conveyed by the Greeks in the weekend's opinion polls helped cheer the market this morning," said a Shanghai-based trader with an international firm. In China, the government will soon resume paying subsidies to rural residents who trade in old vehicles for new, fuel-efficient ones in an effort to rekindle demand amid a slowdown in the world's largest auto market, a government official told Reuters on Monday. The news, which follows a spate of reports about possible investment plans by Beijing, helped lift markets today, participants said.
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