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How the Copper price (HG/USD) has performed across recent timeframes.
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Copper traded near 60 cents a pound at its 2001 low before China’s construction boom rewrote the market, driving a peak around $4.60 in 2011. After a mid-decade slump, the post-pandemic recovery and supply worries set successive records — above $5 a pound in 2022 and again in 2024.
In mid-2025, announced US import tariffs triggered a scramble to move metal into American warehouses, briefly spiking COMEX copper to unprecedented levels near $6 a pound and tearing it away from London prices — a reminder that policy, not just supply and demand, can dominate this market. The longer arc remains the electrification story: grids, EVs, and data centres all run on copper.
The table above summarises how the Copper price has moved over each window using open, high, and low values, with the percentage change from the start of the period to now. Short windows reflect recent volatility, while the 1-year and 5-year rows show the longer-term trend. Historical performance is descriptive, not predictive — it summarises the past rather than forecasting the future.
For the live price and what drives it, see the Copper overview, or open the interactive copper chart. Nothing here is financial advice — see our disclaimer.