NEW YORK, Oct 20 (Reuters) - The Canadian dollar has lost ground to the US currency for more than a month, but that may be starting to change, technical analysis suggests.

Oct 20 (Reuters) - The Dow led Wall Street higher on Tuesday as investors focused on value stocks such ‌as healthcare, while technology lagged after rebounding a day earlier.Healthcare (.SPXHC), led gains among the S&P 500's 11 major sector indexes, hitting a record high on Tuesday. Eli Lilly (LLY.N), boosted the benchmark index along with Dow components UnitedHealth (UNH.N), Merck & Co (MRK.N), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.N), and Amgen (AMGN.O). Vaccine company Moderna (MRNA.O), ​hit its highest level since 2022.

BHP Group (ASX: BHP) on Tuesday reported a steep fall in copper production in the first quarter as bad weather and a fatal accident forced temporary halts at its flagship Escondida mine in Chile.Operations there were suspended in late September after a worker was killed in an accident while carrying out maintenance work. Production was also disrupted for several weeks at BHP’s Carrapateena copper mine in South Australia after an underground conveyor belt failed.

Oct 20 (Reuters) - Gold edged lower on Tuesday as investors ‌weighed the likelihood of additional US interest rate hikes this year ahead of next week's Federal Reserve policy meeting.

Italy’s Supreme Court is due to consider on Tuesday a case that could have major consequences for the former Ilva steelworks, a leading employer in the southern Italian city of Taranto and an important part of Italy’s manufacturing sector, with a ruling expected in the coming days.The country’s top court is reviewing an order to shut the steelworks’ blast furnaces on health and environmental grounds – a move the company says could trigger the permanent closure of the plant, which was once the largest in Europe.

Chile’s Codelco is offering its European customers copper at a record high premium of $350 a metric ton for next year, up more than 7% from $325 this year, two sources with knowledge of the matter said.Codelco, the world’s biggest copper miner by production, declined to comment.Premiums set by Codelco for physical delivery of refined copper are paid on top of London Metal Exchange prices and are often referenced as a benchmark in global supply contracts for the metal used in electric vehicles, grid infrastructure and construction.

Prices of sulphuric acid used to process metals such as copper and nickel are expected to extend their decline next year, consultancy CRU said on Tuesday.Sulphuric acid delivered to top copper producer Chile is forecast to fall to $215 a metric ton in the fourth quarter of 2027 from a record of $451 earlier this year, CRU said.“There’s a bit of relief for those that are more exposed to the spot and contract sulphuric acid markets,” analyst Chris Lawson told a seminar during LME Week, an annual gathering of the global metals industry in London.

Oct 20 (Reuters) - Wall Street's main indexes moved higher on Tuesday as a surge ​in healthcare stocks and softer oil prices boosted risk appetite, building on a recovery from last week's technology-led ‌selloff.Brent crude prices slipped 1.1% after touching a five-month high in a choppy session as traders weighed Houthi attacks on Saudi infrastructure and reports of vessel attacks in the Gulf.

TORONTO, Oct 20 (Reuters) - The Canadian dollar strengthened to a four-week high against its US counterpart on Tuesday, boosted by a narrower gap between Canadian ​and US interest rates and after Alberta voted by a large ‌majority to remain part of Canada

BENGALURU, Oct 20 (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve will skip raising interest rates this month and deliver a hike in December, according to nearly all economists polled by Reuters, as policymakers signal patience even as stubborn inflation argues for a tougher response.

Oct 20 (Reuters) - Futures tracking Canada's main stock index inched lower on Tuesday as persistently high inflation, softer gold prices and worries ​stemming from trade tensions with the US weighed.December ‌futures on the S&P/TSX index declined 0.13% at 05:50 a.m. ET (0950 GMT).The benchmark index (.GSPTSE), retreated from a three-week high on Monday, after September's domestic ​inflation data came in above the Bank of ​Canada's upper limit

Oct 20 (Reuters) - Nasdaq 100 futures slipped on Tuesday, pressured by ‌renewed weakness in AI-linked stocks and a rebound in oil prices, as investors braced for major corporate earning reports.CoreWeave (CRWV.O), dropped 4.7% and Nebius Group (NBIS.O), lost 4.9% in premarket trading, while Apple (AAPL.O), fell 1.2% and Nvidia (NVDA.O), slipped marginally.

Oct 20 (Reuters) - Gold edged lower on Tuesday as rising ‌oil prices stoked inflation concerns, with investors looking to next week's Federal Reserve meeting for clues on the US interest-rate outlook.

Oct 20 (Reuters) - European shares fell for the second straight day on Tuesday, as ‌another rise in crude oil prices kept risk sentiment in check, while investor focus honed in on results from key AI bellwether companies later this week.The pan-European STOXX 600 (.STOXX), dipped 0.6% after dropping close to 1% on Monday, with European semiconductor companies including ASML (ASML.AS), and ASMI (ASMI.AS), falling more than 3%.

India’s state-run miner NMDC (NSE: NMDC) has put its planned foray into nickel on hold partly because of global oversupply concerns in Indonesia, a country that accounts for more than 60% of global output of the metal, two company officials with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters.Reuters had earlier reported that India’s state-owned Steel Authority of India (SAIL) (NSE: SAIL) and NMDC were looking at boosting nickel supplies from Russia and acquiring coking coal assets.

Shenghe Resources (SHA: 600392) said it would sell majority stakes for its smelting and separation business for 1.66 billion and 1.81 billion yuan ($248.44 million-$270.89 million) to a subsidiary of state-owned China Rare Earth Group.Shenghe Resources will transfer a 51% stake at its Leshan Shenghe subsidiary, after spinning off the subsidiary’s non-rare earth smelting and separation business, to a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Rare Earth Group, according to a company filing on Sunday.

Oct 19 (Reuters) - The euro fell against the dollar on Monday as riots in France added ​to concerns about the country's worsening fiscal outlook, while the US currency was boosted by a rebound in AI ‌stocks.

India’s Hindustan Zinc (NSE: HZNC) posted a more than two-fold jump in quarterly profit on Monday, helped by higher metal prices, while cutting its annual zinc production cost forecast amid rising output and stronger by-product realisations.The Vedanta group firm’s zinc production cost forecast for fiscal 2027 now stands at $825 per ton to $850 per ton, compared with $975 per ton to $1,000 per ton earlier, Chief Executive Amarendu Prakash said in a post-earnings call.

South Korean copper smelter LS MnM is reviewing a potential reduction in output as shrinking refining margins and intensifying competition for copper concentrate pressure profitability, it said on Monday.The company, which operates a refinery with annual capacity of 680,000 metric tons, said it was considering “flexible adjustments” to copper concentrate purchases depending on market conditions and operational efficiency.

Copper prices fell on Monday as rising inventories and the end of a strike at a major Chilean mine eased supply concerns.Benchmark three-month copper on the London Metal Exchange was down 0.4% at $14,342 a metric ton by 1600 GMT.Available copper stocks in LME-registered warehouses rose to a two-month high of 147,450 tons after 8,225 tons of inflows into US warehouses, daily exchange data showed.