U.S. copper stockpiling is squeezing China - Christopher Ecclestone

(Kitco News) Washington’s strategic metals push is pulling copper into U.S. warehouses at China’s expense, according to Christopher Ecclestone, principal and mining strategist at Hallgarten + Company.Fresh from LME Week in London, Ecclestone told Kitco Mining’s Digging Deep on Oct. 22 that one metal dominated the conversations. “Copper, copper, copper,” he said. “This year it was massively, massively copper focused.”