NEW YORK - U.S. copper futures bounced from one-month lows Friday morning, as a weaker dollar and rising consumer sentiment underpinned prices and countered weaker-than-expected durable goods and housing data.

* Copper for December delivery HGZ9 up 2.60 cents at $2.7355 a lb by 10:23 a.m. EDT (1423 GMT) on the New York Mercantile Exchange's COMEX division.

* Session range from $2.6730, a low dating back to Aug. 19, to $2.7370.

* COMEX estimated futures volume at 8,431 lots by 9 a.m.

* Copper rises in response to data showing U.S. consumer sentiment up in late September to its highest level since January 2008.

* Copper further buoyed by dollar weakness after G20 pledge to continue emergency stimulus spending until a recovery takes hold suggested U.S. interest rates will remain very low.

* Copper advance bucks bearish impact from unexpected fall in U.S. durable goods orders in August and smaller-than-expected rise in new home sales.

* Slight improvement in sentiment after the release of the Shanghai copper inventory numbers, which showed a higher-than-expected decrease in weekly inventories - MF Global analyst, Edward Meir.

* Copper inventories in warehouses monitored by the Shanghai Futures Exchange fell 5.3 percent to 98,689 tonnes from 104,248 tonnes one week earlier.

* London Metal Exchange (LME) copper stocks slipped 175 tonnes to 340,700 tonnes on Friday.

* COMEX copper warehouse stocks went up 372 short tons, bringing total levels to 53,750 short tons as of Thursday.

* Chilean state miner Codelco, the world's largest copper producer, plans to invest $367 million in its aging El Teniente mine in 2010.

* Japan's output of rolled copper products fell to 63,224 tonnes in August on a seasonally adjusted basis, down 21 percent from a year earlier. The figure represents a 2.2 percent increase from July - Japan Copper and Brass Association.

* Union workers at Chile's Spence copper mine likely to reject BHP Billiton's collective contract offer and vote to strike in coming days - Spence workers' union president Andres Ramirez.

* LME copper for three-month delivery MCU3 last traded at $6,000 a tonne, up $50 from Thursday's close. (Reporting by Chris Kelly; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)

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