After World War II Lowe's became known hundreds of miles around for rock-bottom prices on nails, copper pipe and lumber by the railcar-load.

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Copper bulls have the slight overall near-term technical advantage and a bullish double-bottom reversal pattern has formed on the daily bar chart.

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Copper bulls still have the slight overall near-term technical advantage and a bullish double-bottom reversal pattern has formed on the daily bar chart.

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If there is a good rally in copper on Thursday, that would hint that price action Tuesday put in a near-term market bottom.

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