the price of copper keeps falling if it dips below a key level that could indicate a worsening economic outlook futures for copper have dropped 9 to 435 a pound from the 2021 high reached in mid may the price is still up more than 20 year to date as the economy reopens and trillions of dollars of government spending have shored up demand but a slight additional fall would put the price in correction territory defined as 10 below a recent high