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Jeffrey Stafford
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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...
Underlying
Freeport-McMoRan Inc.

Freeport-McMoRan is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a mining company. The company operates assets with proven and probable reserves of copper, gold and molybdenum, and the company is a publicly traded copper producer. The company's portfolio of assets includes the Grasberg minerals district in Indonesia, copper and gold deposits; and mining operations in North America and South America, including the Morenci minerals district in Arizona and the Cerro Verde operation in Peru. The company has organized its mining operations into four primary divisions: North America copper mines, South America mining, Indonesia mining and Molybdenum mines.

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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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Jeffrey Stafford

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