** U.S.-listed shares of copper miners rise premarket, tracking higher prices of the red metal MET/L
** Benchmark copper CMCU3 on the London Metal Exchange (LME) up 1.2% at $11,626 a metric ton after easing by 1.3% on Tuesday and having hit a record peak of $11,771 a day earlier
** Copper prices rebounded, moving back towards record levels, on hopes for more stimulus in top metals consumer China, especially for its battered property sector
** LME copper has surged 32% this year on worries about mine disruptions causing deficits and as flows of metal to the U.S. tightens supply in the rest of the world
** Global mining giants Rio Tinto RIO.N up 1.5% and BHP Group BHP.N rises 2%
** Southern Copper SCCO.N and Freeport-McMoRan FCX.N each gains marginally
** Canada's Ero Copper ERO.TO, ERO.N adds 1.4% and Teck Resources TECKb.TO, TECK.N up 1.2%
(Reporting by Pooja Menon in Bengaluru)
((Pooja.Menon@thomsonreuters.com))
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