The world’s output of industrial metals is also expanding, and prices have been dropping for over a year.

全世界的工业金属产出也正在增加，同时价格也已经下降了超过一年。

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Copper climbed to a 27-month high as investors sought industrial metals to hedge against a decline in the dollar.

铜金属价格上涨至27个月来新高，投资者转投工业金属，避免美元汇率下跌造成损失。

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The two Asian giants are big buyers of Latin American commodities such as grains, industrial metals, oil and other sources of energy.

这两个亚洲巨人是拉丁美洲商品的大买主，如粮食、工业金属、石油和其它能源。

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Another group of commodities industrial metals seems to be exerting a magnetic force on some unusual targets.

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That would be supportive for industrial metals like silver, the platinum group metals and copper.

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The prices for industrial metals were hit particularly hard in the week ended July 24.

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