Copper miners fall on mixed Chinese data

Shares of copper miners fall, tracking lower prices of the red metal

Benchmark three-month copper CMCU3 on the London Metal Exchange (LME) down 0.4% at $9,840 a metric ton

Copper prices edged lower as investors digested mixed factory data from top metals consumer China and progress in trade talks between Canada and the United States

U.S.-listed shares of global mining giants: Rio Tinto RIO.N and BHP Group BHP.N down 1.2% and 1.5%, respectively

Copper miners Southern Copper SCCO.N and Freeport-McMoRan FCX.N each down 1.2%

Canadian miners Ero Copper ERO.TO falls 1.3% and Hudbay Minerals HBM.TO down 1.6%