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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…
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…
Brian Sylvester: Despite a pullback in growth for China, copper (NYSEARCA:JJC) demand is likely to remain strong in 2012, according to Dr. Michael Berry, publisher of Morning Notes, and his co-author, Chris Berry, founder of House Mountain Partners. Other developing nations, such as Indonesia Read more…
Jonathan Yates: As detailed in previous articles on www.emergingmoney.com, uber-investors John Paulson and George Soros, both worth billions, took different positions on gold recently. John Paulson sold off part of his SPDR Gold Shares (NYSEARCA:GLD) holdings, the exchange-traded fund for gold, Read more…
Jonathan Yates: Traders should look to monitor and profit from the inverse correlationship between copper (NYSEARCA:JJC) and gold (NYSEARCA:GLD). The red metal is mined almost entirely for industrial usage while the yellow metal is produced, in the great majority, for investment 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…
Sean Brodrick: This year has been a good one for some (not all) commodities. But the important question to ask here is: What does 2012 hold for commodity investors? 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…
Jonathan Yates: One of the nice things about having $3.2 trillion in foreign reserves — more than any other nation — and a state-controlled economy is that it allows China to continually manipulate markets for commodities such as copper (NYSEARCA:JJC), corn (NYSEARCA:CORN) and cotton 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…
Michael Johnston: United States Commodity Funds, the firm behind the innovative (NYSEARCA:USCI), rolled out another product created through its partnership with SummerHaven this week. The new United States Copper Index Fund (NYSEARCA:CPER) will be linked to the SummerHaven 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…
Tim Seymour: Tonight’s inflation numbers out of Beijing could confirm that China is finally ready to loosen its monetary policy. We talk about it today on Trading the Globe. Read more…
Jonathan Yates: Suspicions that the Federal Reserve will eventually launch into a third round of quantitative easing has led some traders to bet on a weaker dollar and higher prices for oil (NYSE:USO), gold (NYSE:GLD) and copper (NYSE:JJC). Read more…
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