Copper miners fall as red metal prices slip from three-month peak on Chinese data

Shares of copper miners fall, tracking red metal's prices

Benchmark three-month copper CMCU3 on the London Metal Exchange down 0.5% to $9,850.50 per metric ton, having hit $9,917 a metric ton, its highest since March 27

Copper prices slipped from a three-month peak after weak data in top metals consumer China and some profit-taking, but losses were modest due to underlying tightness and buoyant premiums

Copper miners: Southern Copper SCCO.N fall 1.5% and Freeport-McMoRan FCX.N down ~1%

Canadian miners: Hudbay Minerals HBM.TO declines 1.4%, Teck Resources TECKb.TO down ~1% and Ero Copper ERO.TO shares fall 1.3%