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Chris Ciovacco: Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold Inc. (NYSEArca:FCX) engages in the exploration, mining, and production of mineral resources. The company primarily explores for copper (NYSEArca:COPX), gold, molybdenum, silver, and cobalt. Obviously, copper (NASDAQ:CU) is an economically Read more…
Yiannis Mostrous: The copper (NYSEArca:JJC) market suffered a volatile 2011 due to supply disruptions and investor concern about a global economic slowdown. Some analysts estimate that worldwide copper production last year was at its lowest level since 2008. Indeed, Freeport McMoRan Copper Read more…
Brian Sylvester: Kwong-Mun Achong Low, an analyst with Northern Securities in Canada, thinks that copper (NYSEArca:JJC) and gold juniors (NYSEArca:GDXJ) are in for a better run this year. Read more…
Stoyan Bojinov: Equity markets have been on a bullish streak all week as positive economic data on the home front coupled with encouraging developments overseas have helped to restore investors’ Read more…
Scott Pluschau: Copper futures (NASDAQ:CU) are taking off. Copper is an industrial metal and has a history of use for 10,000 years. It is seen as a leading indicator on whether or not the economy is expanding because of its wide use as a conductor of heat and electricity. Read more…
Tim Seymour: The copper miners (NYSEARCA:COPX) are shaping up well in terms of technical factors. The question coming up is whether this is another head fake or — at long last — the breakout Read more…
Stoyan Bojinov: With over 1,400 exchange-traded products on the market, investors have likely run into some seemingly “duplicate” offerings. While many of the “plain vanilla” products have quite a bit in common, there are more than a handful of funds which offer seemingly identical exposure, although Read more…
Michael Johnston: Among investors interested in exposure to commodities, gold and crude oil tend to dominate most discussions; these natural resources are among the most widely traded in the world, and tend to account for the lion’s share of allocations to the “third asset class” in most long-term Read more…
Michael Johnston: One of the latest innovations in the ETF industry came in the form of the first exchange-traded fund offering exposure to copper, one of the most widely used and heavily-traded commodities in the world. The recently-launched United States Copper Index Fund (NYSEARCA:CPER), which Read more…
United States Commodity Funds LLC, a sponsor of exchange traded commodity funds, listed for trading on the New York Stock Exchange Arca a new exchange traded commodity index fund, United States Copper Index Fund, under the ticker “CPER”. Read more…
Jared Cummans: Copper is arguably the most useful industrial metals, as it can be found in a number of household products. Aside from its most evident use in wires and plumbing, copper is a key element in auto parts like brakes, cooling systems, and even the Statue of Liberty, which features over 80 tons of copper Read more…
Jared Cummans: Copper is perhaps the most popular industrial metal, not only in its application to the real world, but also from an investing standpoint. As one of the most versatile and important metals, it makes sense for copper to be an investor favorite, after all, copper has an endless list of uses. Among plumbing Read more…
David Zeiler: In less than two hours this material can kill 99.9% of most of the bacteria on its surface, including E.coli, influenza, staphylococcus and H1N1. Read more…
Glencore, the world’s largest commodity house, to raise as much as $11 billion in an IPO scheduled to price this week. Glenncore, headquartered in Switzerland, produces, sources, processes, refines, transports Read more…
Kerri Shannon: With metals and commodities on a long-term bull-market run, investors have recently turned their attention to copper. Read more…
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