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Bright and Shiny Upside for Copper and Gold Miners, Part 1

Wednesday, March 10, 2010 4:22:20 PM
Gary Dorsch (Global Money Trends) submits:
For traders in the metals markets, Freeport McMoran Copper & Gold (FCX) ranks among the crown jewels of the global mining industry. FCX is the world’s #2 copper miner - second in size only to Chile’s Codelco. It also ranks as a Tier-1 gold miner, - the fourth largest. The quantity of metal reserves under its control is enormous - including 102 billion pounds of copper, 40 million ounces of gold, 2.5 billion pounds of molybdenum, and 267-million oz’s of silver.
A rare hybrid between a copper and gold miner, FCX is a favorite trading vehicle for speculators in the marketplace. FCX’s mettle was tested during the heightened panic of the global credit crunch in the fourth quarter of 2008, when its share price plummeted to as low as $15.70 from a record high of $127 /share less than six-months earlier. FCX’s 8.25% note due in 2013, plunged to as low as 66-cents on the dollar, to yield more than 17% to maturity, as the price of copper plunged to $1.25 /pound in New York, just slightly above FCX’s estimated cash cost of production of $1.04 /pound.
But FCX’s executives quickly found several ways of slashing costs, such as reducing capital expenditures and cutting its dividend, to preserve precious cash. Excluding one-time items, FCX still managed to eked out a small profit of $23 million in the fourth quarter of 2008, when market conditions looked the bleakest. As fate would have it, China’s State Reserve Bureau, (SRB), rode to the rescue of the global metal miners, - buying roughly 45% of the world’s base metals supply in 2009.
Speculators spotted China’s stockpiling spree, jumped on the bandwagon, and red-metal rallied every quarter last year, posting an annual rise of 140%, its biggest in three-decades. One year later, FCX, with a portfolio of assets including the Grasberg mining complex in Indonesia, the world’s largest copper and gold reserve, posted Q4, 2009 earnings of $971 million, while its revenue more than doubled to $4.6 billion, from $2.1 billion a year earlier. During 2009, FCX repaid $1 billion in debt, leaving it with outstanding debt of $6.3 billion and cash of $2.7 billion.
With its fourth-quarter mining costs for copper falling to an average 62 cents /lb, the company expects its operating cash flow to approximate $5.3 billion this year. Reflecting this optimism, FCX Gold is an international currency, and thus, support or resistance can come from many different quarters around the globe. The largess of G-20 governments, providing $14 trillion of various stimulus packages, and guarantees for banks, has spawned all types of speculative activity, including the most opaque form of derivatives - credit default swaps (CDS), which played a key role in driving Lehman Brothers (LEHMQ.PK), Bear Stearns and American International Group (AIG) into bankruptcy.
China’s exports are growing again, up 45% from a year ago, and “hot-money” inflows are rising, adding to the pool of cash sloshing about the Chinese economy. China’s stash of foreign currency reserves has mushroomed to $2.4 trillion. At the same time, in order to keep the yuan tightly pegged to the US dollar, the PBoC is buying vast quantities of US dollars, Euros and yen for its FX reserves, and is printing huge quantities of Chinese yuan, - fueling dangerous bubbles in stocks and real estate prices, and blowing bubbles in the Shanghai commodities markets.
Gunslingers were able to return to the gambling table, fully aware that their losses will be covered up in future by G-20 governments. This has led Oligarchic bankers to intensify their involvement in the most hazardous forms of speculation. Based on the near-zero interest rates, finance houses are able to borrow funds at next to nothing, and can easily engage in carry trading in liquid commodities or stocks. has rebounded to as high as $90 /share on January 10th. Since then, its shares have gyrated on a mini-rollercoaster ride, slumping to as low as $66, in a violent shake-out, before rebounding to $80 /share today. For all its valuable assets, Freeport’s market value is just $36 billion.

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On March 2nd, Richard Adkerson, CEO of Freeport-McMoRan, said:

Business is still weak for us in the developed world, in the US, Japan and in Europe. But the long-term outlook is good. When you add in any recovery in the developed world, with the opportunity in China and other developing countries, (such as Brazil, India), you get a positive outlook for demand in the long run.

China has become a key focus for metals traders in recent years, accounting for 4% of global metal demand 25 years ago to 45% in 2009. China consumed 46% of the global steel supply, much of it produced internally, leading Chinese steelmakers to import a stunning 630 tons of iron-ore in 2009, up 41% from the previous year. China has a long-standing policy of stockpiling commodities to smooth out price spikes during the year, and spent 72 billion yuan, to bolster its stash of non-ferrous metals, with imports of copper up 63%, and aluminum up 160 percent.
Last year, Chinese banks answered Beijing’s call to open the floodgates to boost the economy, by issuing a record 10 trillion yuan ($1.5 trillion) in new loans, while the government spent 4 trillion yuan on infrastructure projects. The combined stimulus equaled a stunning 45% of China’s $4.3 trillion economy. By the fourth quarter, China’s economy was rebounding at a +10.7% clip, the fastest pace in two-years, while its imports hit a record $112-billion in December.
China’s appetite for imports also aided other Asian industrial giants, such as South Korea, and Japan, - big importers of crude oil, coking coal, copper, and iron-ore. As such, speculators in FCX and other metal miners, found success, by tracking the direction of the Shanghai red-chip index, - viewed as a real-time barometer of the Chinese economy. At their peak in January, the big-3 base metal miners BHP Billiton, (BHP) Rio Tinto, (RTP) and Brazil’s Vale (VALE), were valued at $510 billion, equaling 26% of the $2 trillion value of the world’s top 100 miners.
After peaking at $90 /share on Jan 11th, shares of FCX, ranked in ninth in value among global miners, was seen as ripe for profit-taking. Shares of FCX endured the first meaningful correction in more than a year, skidding 27% to as low as $66 /share. The catalyst for the sharp sell-off, was a surprising move by the Chinese central bank, tightening its monetary policy for the first time in eighteen-months, by hiking banks’ reserve ratios a half-point to 16%, - a move that rocked global financial markets, base metals, and other industrial commodities.

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Bright and Shiny Upside for Copper and Gold Miners, Part 2

Wednesday, March 10, 2010 3:57:17 PM
Gary Dorsch (Global Money Trends) submits:

China has long utilized the adjustment of required bank reserves for mopping-up or injecting yuan into the economy. Every half-point increase drains roughly 250 billion yuan ($36 billion). On Feb 12th, the PBoC ordered local banks to increase reserves for a second time to 16.50%, without resorting to lifting interest rates. Beijing said it will target a +8% growth rate in the economy in 2010, and would act to prevent inflation from flaring above 3 percent. In order to achieve these twin-objectives, the PBoC vows to slow the growth rate of the M2 money supply to a +17% growth rate.
Copper prices fell by 20% to as low as $6,250 /ton in London, amid an initial knee-jerk reaction to the PBoC’s tightening moves. However, speculators viewed copper’s drop to $6,250/ton, as a good buying opportunity, and the red-metal has since rebounded to $7,500/ton. The PBoC’s tweaking of monetary policy represented just a tiny fraction of the 14 trillion yuan of stimulus injected into the Chinese economy. In turn, FCX and other metal miners were quick to recoup much lost ground.

Beijing is nurturing fertile ground for the Shanghai gold market, which has already risen 54% against the yuan, since the central bank opened the money spigots in November 2008. China is now the world’s #1 miner and buyer of gold, with output reaching 314-tons last year. Gold demand in China grew by 14% to around 450-tons in 2009, outstripping supply. Speculation is rife that Beijing is clandestinely buying gold from state owned miners, to avoid sending the market price sharply higher, and much of China’s newly mined gold may well be sitting in government coffers.
Trying to dampen the smoldering fire in the gold market, and to keep a lid on inflation expectations, Chinese officials utilize the media to brainwash the general public. On March 9th, Yi Gang, China’s FX chief, said Beijing has no interest in amassing the yellow metal. “The international gold market is very limited. If we purchase gold on a massive scale, it would definitely push-up global gold prices. It is, in fact, impossible for gold to become a major investment channel for China’s foreign exchange reserves. We have 1,000-tons now, and even if we double that holding, it would equal about $30-billion. It would just increase the level of gold to about 2% of China’s FX reserves from the current 1-percent,” he said.
Beijing has several “ideas and tool kits to manage inflationary expectations,” Liu Mingkang, chief of the China Banking Regulatory Commission, told the official Xinhua news agency on March 9th. “Don’t get into too much of a panic or be afraid about inflation. China’s CPI and PPI may rise slightly, but there’s only a small chance that inflation will be more than moderate,” he said. However, very few Shanghai gold traders are duped by the government’s brainwashing operations.

Attracted to the highly indebted Greek bond market like vultures to a decaying corpse, CDS traders at major banks and hedge funds moved in for a quick kill, with a surge of activity, that has tripled the cost of insuring Greek debt. And the louder the ticking time bomb of a Greek default, - the more likely that CDS speculators will hit the jackpot, including a plunge of the Euro, from a currency union break-up.

Although gold is roughly 10% below its all-time high against the US-dollar, the yellow metal has catapulted to new record heights against the Euro, tracking the cost of insuring Greek bonds against default. While France and Germany are expected to arrange some type of interim bail-out for Athens, whatever form of rescue package is devised, it’ll probably be financed the clandestine monetization of sovereign debt by the European Central Bank, through backdoor lending to banks.

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The combination of super-easy G-20 money policies, exploding sovereign debt, and currency devaluations, have buoyed the price of gold, including in London, where the yellow metal hit an all-time high of 760-pounds /oz this week. Rising bets on the British pound falling below $1.500 have already hit pay-dirt, amid projections that the UK’s budget deficit could reach 200-pounds this year, or 13% of GDP, forcing the Bank of England to begin ramping-up its money printing machine again, to monetize a huge chunk of the impending supply of gilts.


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Today in Commodities: Signs of an Interim Top

Wednesday, March 10, 2010 3:08:25 PM
Matthew Bradbard submits:

We have a number of shorts on commodities, thinking a setback is due. A failed rally... say it is not so! Crude looks to close higher on the day but below $82 and $1 off its high. We remain convinced a 5-7% correction is right around the corner. Forget the fundamentals and technicals; throw it all out the window and just recognize that even in a bull market, it is healthy to get corrections. In the last 5 weeks Crude has moved almost 19% higher without any significant correction; it is time.

Buying is starting to emerge in natural gas. We have been early to this trade but have held our guns thinking a short squeeze could lift April futures back over $5 in a hurry. Clients are long April futures and June $5/5.50 call spreads.


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Outlook on Gold, Oil and Emerging Markets

Wednesday, March 10, 2010 1:38:17 PM
Frank Holmes submits:

Frank at Tech Ticker 030910 Yesterday afternoon I sat down with Aaron Task from Yahoo! Finance’s Tech Ticker to discuss my outlook for gold and oil. Despite a recent run-up in gold prices, I explained to Aaron that I am still bullish on gold.

I think there are many compelling factors both from a supply side and from the demand side that looks like gold will trade higher…The only supply coming to the market is from central banks. Supply from mines is contracting as it’s getting more difficult, more expensive to produce an ounce of gold and deliver it to the marketplace.


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Gold Amid Rising Interest Rates

Wednesday, March 10, 2010 12:48:13 PM
Streetwise Blog submits:

By Andrew Willis

Be wary of gold and gold mining stocks once interest rates start to rise.


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The New York Gold Crossing

Wednesday, March 10, 2010 12:04:36 PM
Tim Iacono submits:

It's not clear what's moving the gold price today, in fact, it's been a funny week in that the financial media is reporting better prospects for the Greek debt crisis have led to a stronger euro, a weaker dollar, and falling gold prices. That's not the way it's supposed to work...

But, prices sure are moving - first up and now down - and it comes at a time of the day when many big moves have occurred, that is, shortly after markets open in New York.
IMAGE As noted here a week or two ago, the moves in New York trading are not always in the downward direction, but the three-day price charts from Kitco sure do show a lot of crossings right there in the middle.


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The Gold Bubble: Beware of Following the Herd

Wednesday, March 10, 2010 5:09:17 AM
Richard Bookstaber submits:

I am not going to spend time here talking about how the price of gold is off-the-wall, that it is not just a bubble in the making, but a bubble waiting to burst. I don’t want to waste your time on that point. We all know it is a bubble.

George Soros has said “The ultimate asset bubble is gold”. Many of the top asset managers, such as Tudor and Paulson, are piling on; Paul Tudor Jones recently said gold “has its time and place, and now is that time.” The banks are echoing this view with their research. Goldman Sachs has a research piece that looks for gold to approach $1,400 in the next year. The more ebullient Charles Morris of HSBC has said, “I absolutely believe it’s heading into a bubble, but that’s why you buy it. ” He, along with a number of other professional and otherwise rational managers, looks for gold to move as high as $5,000 an ounce.


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Interviewing Puru Saxena: Optimistic About China, India and Vietnam

Wednesday, March 10, 2010 4:23:29 AM
Daniel Eskin submits:

In our first edition of Expert Interview, Y&I is very excited to bring you the insights of Puru Saxena, founder of Puru Saxena Wealth Management. Based in Hong Kong, Puru has his finger on the pulse of the East markets, and provides investment advice and asset management for numerous clients. As a highly regarded member of the finance community, Puru is a regular guest on various media such as CNN, BBC, Bloomberg TV, CNBC, RTHK, NDTV, TVB Pearl … need we say more?


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As Confidence Returns, Gold Will Rise - John Embry

Wednesday, March 10, 2010 3:03:10 AM
The Gold Report submits:


The Gold Report caught up with John Embry, Chief Investment Strategist, Sprott Asset Management, to get his thoughts on gold and some mining stocks he favors. Embry, an industry expert in precious metals, has researched the gold sector for over 30 years. Read about why he thinks gold could gain another 30% this year as a greater proportion of the public realizes the degree of difficulty that sovereign debt is in. He believes as confidence in gold returns, people will seek an outlet in gold stocks, especially small-cap gold producers and junior explorers with solid projects.

The Gold Report: John, in Investors Digest of Canada, you recently said you're expecting gold to gain another 30% this year.


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Gold's Recent Move Surprises Traders

Wednesday, March 10, 2010 2:27:47 AM
Scott's Investments submits:

The move down in gold on March 8th surprised many traders and flashed an exit signal based on MarketClub's daily "Trade Triangle" technology. As Adam Hewison mentions here, he feels that gold is in a broad trading range and is not optimistic that it will shoot higher.
If you are interested in a trading strategy on Gold or a Gold ETF such as GLD, I detailed a relatively low risk/minimum exposure strategy that produced an 11%+ annual gain on GLD here using stop losses and trend technology that seeks to identify trending markets.
As you can see by the Finviz chart below (click to enlarge), Gold appears to be in sideways mode. I would watch the 50 day moving average and also wait for breakouts above clearly defined trendlines before entering a long trade:
The action Monday confirms that we have more of a two-way market. I expect we'll see further selling on any rallies from this level. GLD currently has a -55 trend score (on a 100 to -100 scale) so until clearer signals develop, I am neutral on Gold.

Disclosure: No position in GLD


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China Prepares to Transform the Gold Market

Wednesday, March 10, 2010 1:56:44 AM
Peter Cooper submits:

The inscrutable Chinese are hardly likely to inform the world that they are on a gold buying spree for fear of sending the gold price through the roof before they can finished their acquisition plans.

China’s gold reserves amount to 1,054 tons, ranking fifth in the world, said Yi Gang, central bank vice governor on Tuesday. China is the largest gold producer in the world, with more than 300 tons of gold produced annually, all of it consumed locally and not exported.


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Market's Paper Anniversary: Anything Here Worth Celebrating?

Wednesday, March 10, 2010 12:37:00 AM

Congratulations to the stock market on the one-year anniversary of the lows. And congratulations to all of you who are net sellers of stocks, and will be as you enter your retirement. For you, an overvalued stock market is absolute gold. For those of us who expect to be net investors for many years, of course, an overvalued stock market is bad news, since we are buying at higher-than-fair values, but we still congratulate those of you who are lucky enough to be able to sell high while we buy high.

I never have understood why young people – certainly anyone under 50 – get so excited when stocks rally. If these same people walk into a 7-11 and see the price of a Slurpee rising every day, or go to fuel up the car and watch the price of gasoline going up every day, they’d be depressed and/or outraged. Even if they already own a car, they hate to see car prices rise because they know they will be buying another car eventually. So why does it make people so darn happy to see stocks rise when they know that they will be buying on balance for many years?


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Demand for gold bullion 'skyrocketing' in Australia

Tuesday, March 09, 2010 6:00:00 PM
Gold bullion is proving to be an attractive option for many investors in Australia, as one commentator has noted sales of the precious metal are "skyrocketing". Precious metal sales manager of Gold de Royale George Vo says that people in the country have been rushing to purchase Swiss gold bullion in response to the recent economic crisis and expectations of a future financial market meltdown.
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Gold mining research earns science honour

A scientist whose nanotechnology and metals research includes developing techniques to cleanse water of arsenic and remove mercury from the cyanide streams used in gold mining operations is to receive a major award recognising his accomplishments. Dr Manoranjan Misra of the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) has been chosen as the 2010 Regents' Researcher by the Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents.
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Turkish gold exports total $1.1bn in 2009

Turkey exported $1.1 billion (£738 million) worth of gold jewellery to international markets last year, according to new figures. Statistics from the country's Export Promotion Center show that its biggest customer was the United Arab Emirates, which bought $348.9 million worth of gold jewellery.
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