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Mathew Hodge
EUR 147.86 For Business Accounts Only

Raising Near-Term Copper Price Forecast, but Long-Term Outlook Unchanged

We've raised our near-term copper price forecast to better reflect the recent runup in pricing to about USD 2.70 per pound from USD 2.10 just six weeks ago. However, we think the 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
OZ Minerals Limited

OZ Minerals is a mining company engaged in exploring for, developing and operating copper, gold and base metal projects. It owns the Prominent Hill copper-gold mine and Carrapateena copper-gold project, both located in South Australia. Co.'s operating segments are: Prominent Hill, which comprised of mining copper, gold and silver from the Prominent Hill Mine; Carrapateena, which comprised of exploration and evaluation associated with the Carrapateena project; Exploration and Development, which comprised of exploration and evaluation activities associated with the other projects and include interests and joint ventures with Minotaur and Toro Energy Ltd, and Corporate Development activities.

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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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Mathew Hodge

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