Copper commenced Tuesday in positive territory, extending Monday’s winning streak on the back of the longest run of inventory declines in over a year. Copper is ignoring overall market sentiment as lower than anticipated earnings reports from both Goldman Sachs and IBM wreaked havoc on the American and European stock markets.
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Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Chile’s No.1 global copper miner Codelco reported that it is still unclear whether U.S. demand for copper has hit bottom, adding Chinese consumption had not fallen. For full story, click here
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009
The Corporación Nacional del Cobre de Chile, Codelco reported that it has obtained a pre-tax profit of US$ 4.968 billion during 2008, with $104 million of that in the last quarter of the year, while the international crisis hurt prices for copper and other company products. For full story, click here
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Monday, March 2, 2009
By Leia Michele Toovey- Exclusive to Copper Investing News U.S. copper futures plunged more than 6 per cent early Friday after government data showed a larger than expected fourth quarter GDP collapse. The bad news capped a week where optimism pushed copper futures up. In fact, copper increased, and safe haven gold pared losses. On [...]
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Sunday, February 8, 2009
By Leia Michele Toovey- Exclusive to Copper Investing News Data released Thursday showing a further deterioration in the manufacturing sector snapped copper’s positive trend. Copper for March delivery shed 3.10 cents to close at $1.50 a lb on the New York Mercantile Exchange’s COMEX division. COMEX copper had gained nearly 7 per cent during the [...]
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Sunday, January 11, 2009
By Leia Michele Toovey- Exclusive to Copper Investing News Copper futures started the year on a note of optimism. On January 3, the first day of trading in 2009, copper peaked at US$1.6225, the contract’s highest point since December 2 2008. Copper was just one of the base metals to rally as a result of [...]
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Thursday, November 20, 2008
By Leia Michele Toovey- Exclusive to Copper Investing News With copper prices considered a barometer of economic growth, it is no surprise that the metal is having a rough go. Japan and Germany are in a full-fledged recession, and China and the U.S. are in bear markets teetering on the brink. The metal has lost [...]
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Friday, November 14, 2008
By Leia Michele Toovey- Exclusive to Copper Investing News With little relief in sight when it comes to the global economic crisis, analysts are expecting further downside for copper. So far this year, COMEX copper prices are down nearly 60 per cent since their record high above $4.00 a lb in July. It is anticipated [...]
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Thursday, October 16, 2008
By Leia Michele Toovey- Exclusive to Copper Investing News After the week started on a good note, on Wednesday a Fed warning that the U.S. economy still faces significant threats and bleak U.S economic data led Wall Street to its worst day since the 1987 stock market crash. Copper dropped as much as 8 per [...]
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Wednesday, October 15, 2008
The world’s largest copper producer, Codelco, anticipates a profit drop as copper prices fall. Results for the first half of 2008 were down 12 percent from the first half of 2007 – $4.108 billion to $4.669 billion. Citing what it called a provisional and unofficial 2009 Business and Development Plan (PND 2009) by the state [...]
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