Copper edged higher with most other metals after President Donald Trump handed out exemptions to his punishing tariffs on some products, nudging up sentiment across financial markets.
The US leader paused import levies on a suite of consumer electronics including smartphones to memory chips late on Friday. That provided temporary respite for markets after Trump’s trade policies sowed deep uncertainty. Still, by Sunday he was pledging to apply different, specific tariffs to phones, computers and popular consumer electronics.