LONDON, Feb 2 (Reuters) - European shares edged higher on Wednesday, with miners gaining as copper remained near record highs on supply concerns, though weak results from engineering firms Atlas Copco and Sandvik weighed.
The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 index of top shares provisionally closed up 0.2 percent at 1,161.49 points after making their biggest gain in three-weeks on Tuesday.
"Rising commodity prices are continuing to hurt companies. This could be a sign analysts could start to revise forecasts," Koen De Leus, strategist at KBC Securities Bolero in Brussels, said.
Although the STOXX Europe 600 Basic Resources gained 2.1 percent on the surge in copper, rising raw material prices hit the results of Sandvik and Atlas Copco which were down 3 and 1.6 percent respectively.
The Euro STOXX 50 was up 0.1 percent at 3,009.34 above the 3,000 level near its 12-month high hit in January 2010 of 3,044.37.
"The Euro STOXX 50 is on the important 3,000 psychological level, unless we continue to get extremely good economic data and corporate earnings, we could be on board for a correction," De Leus said. (Reporting by Joanne Frearson)