61.   He added that Hamanaka denied he tried to manipulate copper markets.

62.   Investigators in Britain and the United States are still puzzling over how Hamanaka ran up such massive losses on the New York and London copper markets.

63.   According to some rumours, the metals subsidiary of South Korean group LG has suffered severe losses on the copper market and also on the aluminium market.

64.   Before its internal crisis, Sumitomo was one of the only key players on the copper market to wager on a rise in prices.

65.   British trading house Winchester Commodities on Friday denied it had manipulated the international copper markets with Yasuo Hamanaka, the disgraced Japanese copper trader from Sumitomo Corp.

66.   But others said that the fundamentals of the copper market were not strong.

67.   But he also pointed to the long-term bearish fundamentals for the copper market, with production levels around the world continuing to soar.

68.   But London-based trading house GNI pointed to a bearish forecast for the copper market.

69.   But the market remained quiet after testing times on the copper market.

70.   Copper rose amid calm trading which has not been seen on the copper market since the start of the Sumitomo affair in mid-June.