(Adds analyst comment and dateline, updates prices) By Eric Onstad LONDON, May 12 (Reuters) - Copper prices edged higher on Tuesday as funds bet on further gains due to supply issues and bullish technical signals, largely ignoring worries about the lack of progress in ending the Iran war. Benchmark three-month copper on the London Metal Exchange was up 0.4% at...

* MSCI EM FX down 0.5%, stocks shed 1.3% * Hungarian forint set for biggest daily fall in a month * Indonesian rupiah falls below 17,500/dollar for the first time * US inflation report awaited later in the day By Purvi Agarwal May 12 (Reuters) - Emerging market stocks eased from record highs on Tuesday as investors held off from...

(Rewrites for EMEA morning session) * U.S. April CPI data due at 1230 GMT * Trump calls Iranian counterproposal 'garbage' * Trump to visit China this week, to discuss Iran with Xi By Noel John May 12 (Reuters) - Gold fell from a three-week high hit earlier on Tuesday, as slim hopes of a U.S.-Iran peace deal drove the dollar...

May 12 (Reuters) - What matters in U.S. and global markets today By Mike Dolan, Editor-At-Large, Finance and Markets With the month-old Iran war ceasefire now on life support, according to U.S. President Donald Trump, stock markets are finding it harder to see past the renewed tensions between the two sides. As ever, oil prices have taken the possible resumption...