Copper miners rise as red metal rebounds on improved market sentiment

** US-listed shares of copper miners rise premarket, tracking gains in prices of the red metal MET/L

** Benchmark copper on London Metal Exchange up 0.8% at $13,793 a ton, having lost 1.6% on Tuesday and recording its biggest weekly drop since March last week

** Copper prices pick up after dropping in the previous session on a recovery in investor sentiment about AI companies and shortages in top metals consumer China

** Shares of global mining giants Rio Tinto up ~1% and BHP Group rise 1.1%

** Miners Southern Copper SCCO.N up 1.4% and Freeport-McMoRan FCX.N adds 2.4%

** Canada's Hudbay Minerals HBM.TO, adds 2.5%, Ero Copper ERO.TO, gains 2.2% and Teck Resources TECKb.TO, up 1.2%