A whole sector of the commodities complex that’s in a long-term bull market isn’t measured by the RBA’s commodity prices index. Do you realise what this means?
February 7th, 2012 | Dan Denning | 0 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "Copper"
Australia Forgets the Little People
How about that? Contrary to our gloomy disposition yesterday, the stock market has taken off like a rocket this morning. The material sector is up 2.9% today alone. It was the worst performing sector in Australia on the ASX in 2011, down 25% thanks to lower commodity prices.
January 4th, 2012 | Dan Denning | 7 comments | Continued
Attack on 5,000
April seems like such a long time ago. What were investors thinking then? As you can see from the chart below, April was the last time the ASX/200 traded near the 5,000 level. The index is nowhere near the 2008 high (as you can see). But maybe it’s getting ready to make a run to 5,000 by the end of the year.
September 29th, 2010 | Dan Denning | 3 comments | Continued
A New ‘Trade of the Decade’
If you’re going to be invested in a single metal this decade, my advice is to back copper. Specifically – companies that are sitting on long-life, high-quality copper resources. He dropped out of the spot light for a while there, but ‘Doctor Copper’ is making some big moves again.
September 22nd, 2010 | Dr. Alex Cowie | 7 comments | Continued
An Uptrend in Commodities?
If the Renminbi were allowed to appreciate, then China would be able to afford more imports. For the things that China imports a lot of such as iron ore, copper and platinum, prices in these commodities should rise.
April 21st, 2010 | Dr. Alex Cowie | 2 comments | Continued
Is Your Money What You Think It Is?
The paper we use today is a medium of exchange – it got that way because governments made it illegal not to accept it – but it’s not a good store of value.
March 19th, 2010 | Doug Casey | 2 comments | Continued
Copper, the Metal with a Ph.D. in Economics
Copper has fallen more than 10% in 2010. It will probably go down a lot further.
February 8th, 2010 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
More Quantitative Easing by Fed has Markets Spooked About Inflation
Bullard said, that, “If the economy came in very weak, let’s say, in 2010, weaker than expected, we would have the option of doing further quantitative easing.” The Fed would do this through additional asset purchases, presumably with more, uh, “money” it created.
November 24th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 43 comments | Continued
Speculators and Chinese Firms Accumulating Australian Resource Companies and Commodities
And while China and America bicker over currencies, Chinese firms are scrambling to buy real assets. And while Aussie banks source foreign borrowing to lend in local real estate, Aussie mining firms go begging for bits of capital that would bring world-class ore bodies (and key strategic resources) into production…by local producers and owners.
November 19th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 1 comment | Continued
Bankers Betting That the Money Given by Feds Will Be Worth Less Next Year
So far the bet has gone their way. Copper has doubled. Gold is up 20%. Stocks markets all over the world are up 60%. Foreign currencies, too, have beaten the dollar.
October 27th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 2 comments | Continued
When People Fear Inflation or a Falling Dollar They Find Refuge in Gold
Gold is also a target of greedy speculators sometimes, even when the going is good. According to a study done by the World Gold Council, you never know what gold will do.
October 5th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 1 comment | Continued
Is it Possible China’s Steel Industry Has Excess Productive Capacity?
“China’s steel output has taken up 48% of the world’s total in the H1 of this year, further exacerbates the oversupply picture and hurts the healthy industrial development. And Mr Roland Verstappen vice president of ArcelorMittal also said steel overcapacity is quite clear in China and which will press down steel prices, sweep smaller mills out of the market and causes unemployment.”
August 6th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 8 comments | Continued
U.S. Dollar Index Showing All Sorts of Weakness
The U.S. dollar taketh…and the U.S. dollar giveth away. That’s one way of looking at the flurry of activity in markets right now. The Aussie dollar is at a ten-month high. Oil is up 75% since January, with crude trading at $74/barrel. Copper is at a ten-month high. The S&P 500 has cracked 1,000 again.
August 4th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 5 comments | Continued
China Has Stopped Stockpiling Metals
There are several components of demand. There’s real economic demand (you need the stuff to make other stuff). There is investment demand (you’re buying it in order to make a profit from what you think the price trend is. There is also pure speculation, and it’s possible that some middle-men were flat-out speculating by buying alongside China’s State Reserve Bureau (sort of like the banks and brokers in the U.S. buying Treasuries ahead of the Fed late last year to improve Q4 earnings).
July 1st, 2009 | Dan Denning | 1 comment | Continued
Chinese Surge in Construction Explains Pickup in Base Metals Stocks
The dragon is breathing fire and building roads. “By the end of April, China had built 20,000 kilometres (12,430 miles) of rural roads, 214,000 low-rent homes, 445 kilometres of highway, and 100,000 square meters (1.08 million square feet) of airport buildings under the stimulus plan,” reported China’s National Development and Reform Commission on May 21.
June 2nd, 2009 | Dan Denning | 3 comments | Continued
