three-months copper

three-months copper definition - finance
The benchmark copper contract traded on the London Metal Exchange. It gets its name from the time it took to ship copper mined in Chile to London when copper trading first began on the LME in 1877.

Webster's New World Finance and Investment Dictionary Copyright © 2003 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana.
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