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Seth Goldstein, CFA
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Low-Cost Chilean Expansions Lead to Lower Long-Term Lithium Price Forecast

Sociedad Quimica Y Minera De Chile SA (SQM) and Corfo, the Chilean regulator that owns the country’s lithium assets, resolved their arbitration and renegotiated SQM’s lease on the Salar de Atacama, which is the lowest-cost source of lithium globally. Under the new agreement, SQM will be allowed to produce up to 2.2 million metric tons of lithium through 2030, which is roughly seven to eight times the amount that SQM was previously allowed to produce. Over the next decade, we expect SQM to invest...
Underlying
FMC Corporation

FMC is an agricultural sciences company. The company provides solutions to growers around the world with a product portfolio fueled by a discovery and development pipeline in crop protection, plant health, and personnel pest and turf management. This combination of technologies includes insect control products based on Rynaxypyr? and Cyazypyr? active ingredients; Authority?, Boral?, Centium?, Command? and Gamit? branded herbicides; Talstar? and Hero? insecticides; and flutriafol-based fungicides. The company's products are used in agriculture to improve crop yield and quality by controlling a range of insects, weeds and disease, as well as in non-agricultural markets for pest control.

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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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Seth Goldstein, CFA

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