Copper

The largely in-person mining industry is no exception to the disruption of work caused by the coronavirus pandemic. One mining company, the American Pacific Mining Corporation (Pink: USGDF), believes that it has set itself up to succeed in a distanced environment. Hot Commodities: With the stock...

While experts are somewhat cautious in their estimations, we can now get a better sense of how gold, oil and copper may perform in the new year, while also contemplating how data from 2019 can help form expectations around commodity trading in the new year. The Nature Of Commodity Trading...

Though they find themselves in the midst of a long-term bear market, there have been clear winners and losers in the precious metals industry over the last several years. For example, since the start of 2016, gold has outperformed both platinum and silver by 30 percentage points and 15 percentage...

Global Brass and Copper Holdings Inc (NYSE: BRSS) and German copper products manufacturer Wieland Group announced a merger deal Wednesday.  What Happened Wieland will acquire all of the outstanding shares of Global Brass and Copper in an all-cash transaction, according to the press...

As measured by the iPath B Bloomberg Copper Total Return ETN (NYSE: JJC), copper is doing pretty well this year. That exchange traded note is up 8.7 percent year to date. Some copper miners exchange traded funds are outperforming JJC, but those gains could be capped by concerns of excess supply....

Among developing economies, Peru often goes overlooked. The South American nation is just a scant percentage of the MSCI Emerging Markets Index and Latin American regional benchmarks, meaning investors looking for exposure to Peruvian stocks often turn to the iShares MSCI Peru ETF (NYSE: EPU). EPU...

Goldman Sachs initiated bullish coverage on the metals and mining space, but the firm said investors still need to be selective about which stocks to buy. The Analyst Goldman analyst Matthew Korn set the following ratings and price targets for metals and mining stocks: Initiated Freeport-...

Copper is easily the most discussed industrial metal, but among mining exchange traded funds, the Global X Copper Miners ETF (NYSE: COPX) often goes overlooked. COPX is nearly eight years old and has $84.7 million in assets under management. When it comes to copper, Chile is often highlighted as...

August wasn't a great month for stocks. It was the first month of 2017 the S&P 500 finished lower, but some other asset classes shined. Exchange traded funds dedicated to industrial and precious metals were among last month's most durable performers. “In August, the Dow Jones...

For all the talk about slumping commodities prices against the backdrop of a weaker dollar, there is copper. One of the most widely watched commodities is surging this year. After climbing about 2 percent on above-average volume on Thursday, the iPath Bloomberg Copper Subindex Total Return ETN (...

Jeff Gundlach, the CEO of DoubleLine Capital, said on CNBC's "Fast Money Halftime Report" that yields are going to break out on the upside. He explained that he is watching the ratio of copper to gold, which gives a pretty good indication of a short-term direction for yields. The copper to gold...

Commodities markets are aflutter over the recent strength in copper. With the red industrial metal residing at its highest levels in two years and breaking out on the charts, the widely followed iPath Bloomberg Copper Subindex Total Return Sub-Index ETN (NYSE: JJC) is up nearly 7 percent over the...

Analysts at Goldman Sachs continue to recommend owning commodities even though the asset class continues to suffer from the biggest slump in eight months. According to Bloomberg's Commodity Index, a gauge of the performance of raw materials, fell more than 3 percent last week which marks the...

Among the many asset classes racing higher following Election Day are industrial metals. The added good news is that copper is bolstering that theme. The iPath Bloomberg Copper Subindex Total Return Sub-Index (NYSE: JJC) is up 25.1 percent over the past month, and some of that ebullience is...