HANOI, April 9 (Reuters) - Copper prices were on track for a weekly rise on Friday, as the dollar was headed for its worst week of the year, making greenback-priced metals cheaper for holders of other currencies.
Three-month copper on the London Metal Exchange rose 0.3% to $9,031 a tonne by 0113 GMT, up 2.7% on a weekly basis.
The most-traded May copper contract on the Shanghai Futures Exchange advanced 0.8% to 67,160 yuan ($10,252.65) a tonne, also set for a weekly rise.
The dollar was pressured by unexpectedly strong economic data in Europe, downbeat U.S. jobs figures and a determinedly accommodative Federal Reserve that prompted investors to unwind some bets on the greenback.
* Chinese battery material maker CNGR Advanced Material Co would set up a joint venture in Indonesia to produce nickel matte, used to make chemicals for electric car batteries, with a Singapore-based partner.
* China’s Jiangxi Copper Co is not building or investing in a previously planned project to make refined copper from scrap in eastern Malaysia, its chairman said.
* LME aluminium fell 0.1% to $2,280 a tonne, while zinc rose 0.2% to $2,860.50 a tonne. In Shanghai, nickel advanced 1.1% to 127,070 yuan a tonne, zinc climbed 1.2% to 22,145 yuan a tonne and aluminium increased 0.2% to 17,530 yuan a tonne.
