Copper prices saw impressive gains in 2024, even breaking the US$5 per pound mark in May. However, the red metal's gains didn't last, and by the end of the year copper had retreated back to the US ...

2-Year U.S. Treasury Note Continuous Contract $102.879-0.016-0.02% 5-Year U.S. Treasury Note Continuous Contract $106.539-0.078-0.07% 10-Year U.S. Treasury Note Continuous Contract $109.031-0.203 ...

Another good graph on US copper use. Gold production has peaked in 2000 and copper will likely peak in 2020. Their growth was roughly parallel (with a 20 years gap). Copper's price in 1998 dollars ...

And in recent years ... Copper and the U.S. dollar have an inverse relationship because it is traded in U.S. dollars. Copper prices reached $4.80 in May 2021 and recently peaked at just over $5 ...