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Andrew Lane

Increasing Our Near-Term Alumina Price Forecast on Supply Shock; Raising Alumina’s FVE to AUD 1.60

Alumina prices soared to an all-time high in reaction to some significant events affecting the aluminum supply chain. Alunorte, the largest alumina refinery in the world is currently running at 50% of capacity due to a Brazilian court decree. This step was taken in reaction to reports of a toxic leak at the facility. More recently, the U.S. government announced sanctions impacting Russian producer Rusal, which provides 7% of global alumina production. The sanctions stipulate that U.S. entities a...
Underlying
Alumina Limited

Alumina is engaged the business of the global bauxite, alumina and aluminium industry, which it conducts primarily through bauxite mining and alumina refining. All of those business activities are conducted through its 40% investments in Alcoa World Alumina and Chemicals ("AWAC"). Co.'s equity interests in AWAC forms a reportable segment.

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Morningstar
Morningstar

Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The company offer an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, and retirement plan providers and sponsors.

Morningstar provides data on approximately 530,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, along with real-time global market data on more than 18 million equities, indexes, futures, options, commodities, and precious metals, in addition to foreign exchange and Treasury markets. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries and had approximately $185 billion in assets under advisement and management as of June 30, 2016.

We have operations in 27 countries.

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Andrew Lane

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