Commerzbank analysts said copper struggled to gain on the recent positive Chinese economic data over into the new week of trading.
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Investor risk appetite upticked modestly to start the new week, and has to a lesser degree to start the new year.
Another spending spree is going on now, during the new week-long May Day holiday (May 1 to May 7), but it is a different phenomenon altogether.
Matt Rooney, head of Nottinghamshire Scouts, told BBC Breakfast that the new week of action would be different from the previous one, in that scouts would no longer go door-to-door offering to do work in return for a small donation.
The new trading week finds the European Union financial and sovereign debt crisis has at least temporarily stabilized as there were no major, unexpected weekend developments regarding that situation.
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Safe-haven buying interest is featured to start the new trading week, amid the ongoing and festering European Union debt crisis.
The market place is quieter to start the new trading week, as the London markets are closed for a holiday, and as traders and investors await key central bank meetings.
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The world market place is quieter to start the new trading week, which did limit the upside for the safe-haven gold market.
The main news event in the market place to start the new trading week is Hurricane Sandy, which is lashing the U.S. eastern coast.
As the industry matures, glitzy launches of new products are a diminishing part of the show: HTC launched its new device the week before, Samsung is launching its new phone later this month in New York.
Google got some time in the spotlight this week too, as the company's new augmented-reality glasses were trotted down the runway at New York Fashion Week.
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The general tenor of the market place is calmer to start the new trading week.
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It was quieter on the geopolitical front worldwide to start the new trading week.
Otherwise, it was a quiet start to the new trading week in Asia and Europe.
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The general tenor of the market place is a bit calmer to start the new trading week.
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Lower crude oil prices are modestly bearish for the precious metals markets to start the new trading week.
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The bulls still have some upside near-term technical momentum on their side to start the new trading week.
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The market place got a shaky start to the new trading week Monday.
Traders and investors are stepping in to do some short covering and bargain hunting to start the new trading week.
There was a bit more investor and trader risk appetite in the market place to start the new trading week Monday.
The European Union sovereign debt crisis front finds no major fresh developments to start the new trading week just a general, ongoing worry.
U.S. and world markets are subdued to start the new trading week.
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The market place is very jittery to start the new trading week.
The China news is also a bullish underlying factor for the raw commodity markets, including the precious metals, to start the new trading week.
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There is political scandal in Spain and banking troubles in Italy that are grabbing the European financial news headlines to start the new trading week.
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Cyprus is in the spotlight to start the new trading week.
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