Copper price powers on but doubts are starting to creep in
Hedge funds' bullish bets set new record, but is the copper market "overreacting to short-term conditions and ignoring several warning signs"?
Frik Els , Editor
Frik has 20 years’ experience as a business journalist across a range of industries including automotive, technology and entertainment markets. Frik has an entry in Global Mining Observer’s Who’s Who of Mining 2018, and contributions to publications and conferences including Business Insider, Investing.com, Mines & Money London and New York, Vancouver Resources Investment, Progressive Mine Forum in Toronto and Canadian Mining Symposium in London, UK. He’s been interviewed on CBC Radio and Korea State TV and quoted in the Financial Post.
Posts by Frik Els:
Gold price leaps to 10-month high
Hedge funds flock to the gold market.
BHP seeking $2 billion Jansen stake sale
Working with an investment bank to off-load 25% interest in giant potash project in Saskatchewan according to new report.
Copper price rally is only gathering momentum
Copper price jumps to near three-year high as likely impact of Chinese scrap metal import ban sparks another session of speculative buying.
Shale may be gone but BHP won’t ditch potash
After pressure BHP is exiting oil and gas. Expect similar calls for shelving its $12 billion Jansen potash project in Saskatchewan to fall on deaf ears.
BHP exiting oil and gas
After posting a fourfold rise in profits, world's number one mining company now "actively pursuing options to exit" its US oil and gas business bought for $20B six years ago.
Iron ore price jumps again – up 47% in two months
Another big day on Chinese futures markets as seaborne iron ore prices approach $80 a tonne.
Copper price rallies after Grasberg violence
Copper above $3.00 after former workers torch dozens of buildings, vehicles at Freeport's Indonesia operations blocking access to world number two mine.
Giant Peru mine blockade lifted after state of emergency
Copper price rally cools after threat to global supply from top 5 Las Bambas mine is averted.
Gold price scales $1,300, highest since Trump election
Gold bulls turn attention from North Korea to US domestic turmoil.
Value of EV battery nickel second highest on record, cobalt at 30-month high
Low LFP-penetration markets, Europe is off to the races in 2025 and US buyers pull forward purchases before subsidies end.
