Right as that was happening , financial market prices for copper - along with a host of other commodities - were slumping as traders fretted that Europe's financial crisis could swamp global demand.

就在此时，金融市场的铜价（以及一系列其他大宗商品的价格）正因为交易员担心欧洲金融危机打压全球需求而大幅下跌。

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Steel and copper traders told Barclays analysts that their inventories were not particularly high.

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Traders seemed to ignore that copper was in such surplus in China that it has to be stored outside already full warehouses in dump sites.

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All industrial metals have been under pressure over the past four weeks with Chinese traders reporting that demand for copper, zinc, and aluminum has failed to stage a recovery normally seen after the end of Chinese New Year celebrations.

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