por admin » Mar Nov 30, 2010 8:09 am
Cobre sube, terminara el mes al alza y es el quinto mes consecutivo de alzas ante la especulacion que habra escasez del metal.
La oferta de cobre bajara 1 millon de metric tons debajo de la demanda en los proximos dos anios, dijo UniCredit Spa. Los inventarios estan en los niveles mas bajos desde Octubre del 2009.
Copper Rises, Heads for Fifth Monthly Gain on Speculation About a Shortage
By Maria Kolesnikova - Nov 30, 2010 5:33 AM ET
Copper rose in London, heading for a fifth monthly gain, as speculation about a potential shortage of metal overcame concern that demand may weaken as China moves to limit inflation.
Supply of copper will fall 1 million metric tons short of demand in the next two years, UniCredit SpA said as it raised price forecasts. UBS AG said copper is one of its most-favored commodities for next year. Stockpiles tracked by the London Metal Exchange shrank to the lowest level since October 2009.
“Among the industrial metals, copper is our favorite,” Jochen Hitzfeld, an analyst at UniCredit in Munich, said in a report. “According to our calculations, supply up to 2014 will not be enough to meet demand.”
Copper for delivery in three months climbed $58, or 0.7 percent, to $8,278 a ton at 10:14 a.m. on the LME. The contract is up 1 percent this month. Copper for delivery in December added 0.3 percent to $3.778 a pound on the Comex in New York.
UniCredit raised its copper-price forecast for 2011 to $9,000 a ton from $8,400 and boosted the following year’s estimate to $9,600 from $8,700. Copper will exceed $11,000 by 2013 because of supply shortages, researcher GFMS Ltd. said yesterday.
The metal climbed to a record $8,966 a ton on Nov. 11 before sliding on concern that China, the world’s largest user, may raise interest rates or increase banks’ reserve ratio again to help curb inflation that’s at a two-year high. Prices dropped for three weeks before this week, also sliding as Ireland’s bailout revived concern about Europe’s sovereign-debt crisis.
Chinese Demand
“Commodity markets remain choppy, driven by macro events and currency movements triggered by events in Europe and China,” said Daniel Major, an analyst at RBS Global Banking & Markets in London. “Concerns remain over tightening measures in China that may dampen Chinese commodity consumption in 2011.”
Concern about a strike at Collahuasi, the world’s fourth- largest copper mine, helped prices to reach a record. Company and union representatives will continue talks today. The stoppage at the Anglo American Plc and Xstrata Plc venture is in its 26th day, matching the longest strike recorded at a major Chilean copper mine.
Chile is home to Codelco, the world’s biggest copper producer. Output slipped 0.5 percent in this year’s first nine months and will be little changed from last year in 2010 and 2011, the Santiago-based company said Nov. 25. Codelco is struggling to maintain output at its aging mines as the average copper content in ore declines.
Ore Content
“Existing mines are suffering from falling ore content,” UniCredit’s Hitzfeld said. “The ore content of the Escondida mine, the world’s largest, has, for example, halved since 1996.”
The expected supply shortfall in 2011 and 2012 will reduce copper stockpiles to “near historical lows,” UniCredit said. LME inventories shrank to 355,750 tons today, daily exchange figures showed. Orders to draw metal from stockpiles, or canceled warrants, rose 1.6 percent to 32,275 tons.
World consumption of copper exceeded supply by 363,000 tons in 2010’s first eight months, almost eight times more than a year earlier, the International Copper Study Group said Nov. 23.
Tin for three-month delivery on the LME rose 1 percent to $24,150 a ton. Prices reached a record $27,500 on Nov. 9. The metal has jumped 42 percent this year, leading advances on the exchange, after production was disrupted in Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Aluminum rose 0.2 percent to $2,274 a ton and nickel climbed 0.6 percent to $22,550 a ton. Lead gained 1.6 percent to $2,222.75 a ton and zinc added 1.6 percent to $2,111 a ton.
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