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Copper spot-market price charts, from www.kitcometals.com: Above, the 30-day move up; below, the spot price charted over the past year.

Sources:

AAA = Fuel Gauge report, updated daily – www.fuelgaugereport.com; see also www.aaa.com
DOE Energy Assurance Daily: www.oe.netl.doe.gov/ead.aspx
Kitco = www.kitco.com, www.kitcometals.com
LME = London Metal Exchange = www.metalprices.com; www.metalprices.com/pl.asp
Oanda = http://www.oanda.com/currency/real-time-rates

Copper Gains on US Outlook, China Easing Hopes
Numerous signs of steady economic recovery in the United States are boosting investors’ confidence to shore up copper this week. Coupled with expectations that China will make loan access easier by easing capital requirements to help bolster the economy, market appetite for the red metal is rising steadily...

Copper dips on China manufacturing data, weak euro
Copper fell on Friday after manufacturing data from China showing a lacklustre start to the year reduced expectations of demand from the world's top consumer of the metal, with a weak euro putting further pressure on prices...

China Copper Imports Surge to Record on Spring Demand Outlook
Refined copper imports by China surged to a record in December, narrowing the second annual decline, as consumers built inventories ahead of a seasonal increase in demand...

A Shanghai warning for the LME
Metals production and consumption are still both rising. The need for price hedging is therefore also rising. What has changed of course is the availability of credit, as Beijing tightens the screws to damp down inflationary pressures and a previously sizzling property sector...

Copper Stockpiles in Shanghai Advance to Nine-Month High
Inventories gained for a seventh consecutive week, rising 11,193 metric tons to 131,645 tons, the highest since April, according to a survey of 10 warehouses in Shanghai, the exchange said on its website. Aluminum inventories also rose...

Copper Rises to 17-Week High on U.S. Manufacturing, Housing Data
Copper futures rose to a 17-week high as reports showing gains in U.S. manufacturing and homebuilder sentiment bolstered prospects for metal demand...

BHP hikes Chile copper resource 700%
Diversified miner BHP Billiton has reported a 700% increase in the mineral resource for its Spence copper project, in northern Chile, following a four-year, $30-million brownfield exploration programme...

Copper Market Rebounds -- Lundin Mining and Freeport McMoRan Poised to Benefit
Copper stocks have been on the upswing this week as the price of the red metal recently hit a new 3 month high. Copper prices have rallied as upbeat Chinese economic data fed hopes that officials in the world's top copper consumer will try to stimulate growth. China said its economy grew by 8.9 percent in the fourth quarter, which was slower than the previous quarter...

NOTE: TEDMAG.com provides the above prices for your information only. Do not use the above data to trade commodities. TEDMAG has made every effort to obtain accurate prices from responsible public sources, but these prices may not reflect actual transactions or prices available to you if you seek to trade.

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Above: Relative one-year performance of Exchange-Traded Funds representing major commodities vs the S&P 500. SLV (black bar) = silver; GLD (gold line) = Gold; blue line = S&P 500. As can be seen, Gold outperformed both of the others. Below: Representative stocks in the Gold/Copper area vs. the S&P 500. Again the blue line = S&P 500; the black bars = Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold; the gold line = Taseko Mines. Both charts created at http://barcharts.marketwatch.com.

Sources:

AAA = Fuel Gauge report, updated daily – www.fuelgaugereport.com; see also www.aaa.com
DOE Energy Assurance Daily: www.oe.netl.doe.gov/ead.aspx
Kitco = www.kitco.com, www.kitcometals.com
LME = London Metal Exchange = www.metalprices.com; www.metalprices.com/pl.asp

NOTE: TEDMAG.com provides the above prices for your information only. Do not use the above data to trade commodities. TEDMAG has made every effort to obtain accurate prices from responsible public sources, but these prices may not reflect actual transactions or prices available to you if you seek to trade.

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Above: Aluminum's spot-market price decline over the past 12 months. Below: A 30-day reading on a base metals price index. Both available on www.kitcometals.com.

Sources:

AAA = Fuel Gauge report, updated daily – www.fuelgaugereport.com; see also www.aaa.com
DOE Energy Assurance Daily: www.oe.netl.doe.gov/ead.aspx
Kitco = www.kitco.com, www.kitcometals.com
LME = London Metal Exchange = www.metalprices.com; www.metalprices.com/pl.asp

Morgan Stanley recently released their forecasts for 18 key commodities. For those following electrical contruction markets, they contend: "Copper tends to underperform during global economic slowdowns but is expected to outperform base metals and Aluminium prices could fall as much as 12% in 2012 from 2011 prices..."

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Copper briefly turns higher after U.S. data
Copper prices briefly reversed losses on Friday following better-than-expected U.S. nonfarm payrolls, but a weak euro kept gains in check...

Copper, nickel up on industrial demand
Copper and nickel prices rose by Rs 2 per kg in the local non-ferrous metal market today on pick-up in industrial demand amid a firming global trend...

Weekly Metals Wrap Up: Copper Swings Between Positive And Negative
Copper remained jostling between positive and negative sentiments throughout the week ending 6 Jan 2012. On the positive side China manufacturing numbers revived faith of investors...

Attempted copper theft at Entergy substation leads to blackout
A would-be copper thief tried to make way with a bundle of the valuable metal from an Entergy substation Friday afternoon but damaged a transformer instead, cutting power for thousands in Uptown and Jefferson for about an hour and burning himself in the process...

Copper Drops as Europe Worries Rattle Markets
BHP Billiton (ASX:BHP) has settled 2012 copper concentrate treatment and refining charges with Chinese copper smelters at $60 a ton and 6.00 cents a pound, up from $56.5 a ton and 5.65 cents a pound in 2011, according to Reuters...

Shanghai Copper Stockpiles Rise to Highest in Almost Four Months
Copper stockpiles (SHFCCOPD) monitored by the Shanghai Futures Exchange climbed this week to the highest level in almost four months, while aluminum holdings were the largest in half a year, data from the bourse showed today...