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    Metals dive on report of fund losses
    Fri Feb 2, 2007 5:56 PM GMT
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    LONDON (Reuters) - Base metals prices fell sharply on
    the London Metal Exchange on Friday on a report of heavy losses
    at a hedge fund and in the absence of Chinese buyers, dealers
    said.
    "The market is collapsing," a European trader said.
    Three-months zinc fell by nearly 9 percent at one
    stage, copper was down by over 6 percent and aluminium dropped by some 3 percent in a general
    sell-off.
    Traders said the selling was mostly on behalf of funds,
    triggered by a report of heavy losses at a hedge fund that
    specialises in metals trading.
    Once prices hit specific chart levels the fall for most
    metals accelerated.
    "Fund liquidation...a lot of stops triggered -- a lot of the
    stuff on the back of the Red Kite news," the trader said.
    Hedge fund Red Kite, which posted strong gains in 2006, has
    suffered a roughly 20 percent loss in the first days of January
    and is now trying to stall investors who want to pull money out,
    The Wall Street Journal reported.
    "It is quite scary, actually, a lot of volume going through
    and no one is buying the stuff," analyst Michael Widmer at
    Calyon said.
    By 1520 GMT benchmark copper for delivery in three months was at $5,330/5,340 per tonne,
    down from the close of
    $5,600 on Thursday.
    Widmer said the market was also influenced by data from the
    United States this week.
    The global indicator produced by JP Morgan with research and
    supply management organisations fell to 52.4 in January -- its
    lowest since August 2005 -- from 53.4 in December.
    Global factory output growth also sank to its lowest in
    three and a half years to 53.0 from 54.3.
    Copper is down more than 12 percent since the start of the
    year and around $3,000 below the peak it hit in May last year.
    Zinc was down $300 at $3,090/3,110.
    "There's no evidence of fresh buying from speculative
    quarters, and all the indications are that the Chinese are going
    to wait until after the New Year holidays before coming to the
    market," another dealer said.
    In previous months, some of the investment funds that play
    the commodities markets have used the first few days of the
    month to add more metals to their portfolios, but that pattern
    has become less pronounced recently.


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