Subject: Copper's Price Surge Sparks Row Among Traders 
Date: Published: 11/10/88 32 lines
Source:  Wall Street Journal.  Copyright Dow Jones & Co. Inc. 

    Heard on the Street:  
    Copper's Price Surge Sparks Row Among Traders
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    By Tim Metz
    Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

    NEW YORK -- Think the presidential election campaign was
 nasty?  Check out the battle between Wall Street traders over
 where copper and its producers' stock prices are headed.

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    They rattle off a host of one-time problems:  a "freak"
 shifting of rock that caused cave-ins at Chile's biggest mine
 early this year; a sudden encounter with lower-grade ore by
 Chilean miners; fear of AIDS that has driven crucial Belgian
 mining engineers out of Zambia; labor unrest in Peru, and
 misguided purchasing practices by U. S. industrial customers
 wedded to the computer-based "just in time" system of
 inventory management.

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