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David Wang
EUR 147.86 For Business Accounts Only

Raising Near-Term Copper Forecast, but Long-Term Outlook Intact; Copper Miners Remain Overvalued

We've raised our near-term copper price forecast to better reflect the recent run up in pricing to about $2.70 per pound from $2.10 just six weeks ago. However, we think the price rapid price increase is largely unsupported by fundamentals and will be short lived. In 2016, copper demand, particularly in China, has been stronger than we were expecting but so has supply--enough so that the recent copper price spike is surprising.
Although we've raised our near-term price estimates, our long-term p...
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Anglo American plc

Anglo American is a global mining company with a portfolio of mining operations and undeveloped resources. Co. is focused on diamonds, copper, platinum group metals (PGMs), and bulk commodities and other minerals. Co.'s segments include: De Beers, which produces rough and polished diamonds; Copper, which produces copper; Platinum, which produces PGMs; Iron Ore and Manganese, which produces iron ore, manganese ore and alloys; Coal, which produces metallurgical coal and thermal coal; and Nickel, which produces nickel.

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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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David Wang

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