Hunger for the Red Metal
19 April 2010 - 2:24PM
Marketwired
-- www.rothmanresearch.com -- Some trends never change. Thousands
of years ago, copper marked our evolution from Stone Age dwellers
to more sophisticated lifestyles. In recent years, copper remains a
key appliance in the development of our civilization, with China
and US's appetite for the red metal ever growing. It is estimated
that China's copper consumption in 2010 might jump between 10 to 15
percent helped by the country's ongoing economic growth. "We have
seen China's imports of copper and related products soared to over
1.07 million tons in the first three months of 2010 which
represents a huge percent increase for the same time period for the
previous two years. China growth locomotive is accelerating
steadfast signaling that demand projections might be in the green
this year," commented Jack Benassi of www.rothmanresearch.com,
"however, in the last two years, copper has also been a versatile
commodity with an rickety trading pattern. A few key factors that
have impacted the price of copper in the last two years have been
the downturn in the U.S. housing sector, growth rate in China and
other emerging economies, and speculative trading."
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Major copper mining operations are located in the North and
South America and Asia with Chile taking the lead as an exporting
country for copper. The biggest copper producer is Chilean state
owned Codelco which produced around 4 billion lbs of copper in
2009. Two other copper producers that have been performing well
over the years are Freeport-McMoRan Copper &
Gold Inc. (NYSE: FCX) and Southern Copper
Corp. (NYSE: SCCO). "Freeport-McMoRan has a wider global
business going for itself with mining operations in Indonesia,
North and South America and the Democratic Republic of Congo,
whereas Southern Copper has mainly focused its activities in
Central and Southern America. On Friday's close, FCX was down
3.61%, closing at $81.18 a share on its highest volume for the week
and SCCO was also 3% down at $33.27 with its highest trading volume
for the week. We believe that Friday's drop in copper stocks'
prices was mainly due to China's measures to control the
overwhelming expansion of its property sector which utilizes a lot
of copper products and also the strengthening of the dollar as
investors took knowledge of the SEC fraud charges against Goldman
Sachs," observed Jack Benassi of www.rothmanresearch.com.
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After the close on Friday, Copper subsided but prospects for the
short to mid-term looks promising for copper as China's hunger for
the red metal is not going to contract any time soon based on the
country's recent imports figures which indicated that in March
imports of copper and copper products were up 42%. Another piece of
good news that will drive copper in green territory, in the
near-term, is the latest Residential Construction report for March
2010 which was released on Friday bearing positive data.
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