BUZZ-Copper miners down as red metal prices edge lower

Hudbay Minerals Inc
Ero Copper
Rio Tinto plc Sponsored ADR
Freeport-McMoRan, Inc.
Southern Copper Corporation

Hudbay Minerals Inc

HBM

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Ero Copper

ERO

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Rio Tinto plc Sponsored ADR

RIO

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Freeport-McMoRan, Inc.

FCX

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Southern Copper Corporation

SCCO

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** U.S.-listed shares of copper miners fall premarket, tracking lower prices of the red metal MET/L

** Benchmark three-month copper CMCU3 on London Metal Exchange down 1.4% at $13,410 a metric ton

** Copper prices fall tracking equity markets lower as escalating Middle East tensions spurred inflation concerns and cast a shadow over the demand outlook for industrial metals

** Shares of global mining giants Rio Tinto RIO.N and BHP Group BHP.N fall 1.6% and 1.5%, respectively

** Copper miners Southern Copper SCCO.N and Freeport-McMoRan FCX.N down 1.6% and 2.2%, respectively

** Canada's Hudbay Minerals HBM.TO, HBM.N slides 1.8%, Ero Copper ERO.TO, ERO.N down 2% and Teck Resources TECKb.TO, TECK.N falls 3.4%