London copper prices advanced on Thursday after the U.S. Federal Reserve signalled no immediate hike in interest rates to sustain a recovery in economic growth and employment.
World stocks hit a record high on Thursday after a smooth start to the U.S. Federal Reserve's mass stimulus unwind plan and as traders waited to see if the Bank of England would be the first major central bank to raise interest rates since COVID hit.
Share markets firmed on Thursday after the U.S. Federal Reserve engineered an orderly start to unwinding its massive stimulus programme, though doubts about the inflation outlook did push up longer-dated bond yields.