April 29 (Reuters) - London copper prices rose on Friday due to a slight pullback in the dollar, although the metal was on track for biggest monthly decline since last September as COVID-19 lockdowns in China and prospects of aggressive U.S. rate hikes fuelled recession fears.

FUNDAMENTALS

* Benchmark three-month copper on the London Metal Exchange (LME) was up 0.6% at $9,759 a tonne, as of 0150 GMT, after hitting its lowest since Feb. 1 on Thursday.

* The most-active June copper contract on the Shanghai Futures Exchange was steady at 73,150 yuan ($11,045.51).

* The dollar index was down 0.2% against its rivals, making greenback-denominated metals less expensive for buyers using other currencies.

* However, the U.S. currency was poised to score its best monthly gain in a decade, buoyed by bets on rising U.S. interest rates and doubts about growth in Europe and China.

* U.S. Federal Reserve officials have aligned around plans to accelerate the pace of interest rate hikes this year but remain split over what could be the make-or-break decision of where to stop to avoid dragging the economy into recession.

* Data on Thursday showed the U.S. economy unexpectedly contracted in the first quarter amid a resurgence in COVID-19 cases and drop in pandemic relief money from the government.

* Beijing closed some schools and public spaces on Thursday, as most of the Chinese capital's 22 million residents turned up for more mass COVID-19 testing aimed at averting a Shanghai-like lockdown.

* Peruvian police on Thursday are carrying out a second day of evictions at MMG's Las Bambas copper mine, seeking to remove a remaining indigenous community that had camped inside company property in a protest, a community adviser told Reuters.

* About 24% of investors voted against Glencore's climate progress report at the miner and trader's annual general meeting on Thursday, after some cited slow progress in scaling back coal production.

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MARKETS NEWS

* Wall Street ended sharply higher on Thursday after a strong quarterly report from Meta Platforms lifted beaten down technology and growth stocks and offset worries about the U.S. economy's contraction in the first quarter.

DATA/EVENTS (GMT)

0530 France GDP Preliminary QQ Q1

0600 UK Nationwide House Price MM, YY April

0645 France CPI (EU Norm) Prelim YY April

0800 Germany GDP Flash QQ SA Q1

0800 Germany GDP Flash YY NSA Q1

0900 EU GDP Flash Prelim QQ, YY April

1230 US Consumption Adjusted MM March

1400 US U Mich Sentiment Final April

PRICES

Three month LME copper

Most active ShFE copper

Three month LME aluminium

Most active ShFE aluminium

Three month LME zinc

Most active ShFE zinc

Three month LME lead

Most active ShFE lead

Three month LME nickel

Most active ShFE nickel

Three month LME tin

Most active ShFE tin

($1 = 6.6226 Chinese yuan) (Reporting by Brijesh Patel in Bengaluru; Editing by Sherry Jacob-Phillips)