Industrial commodities like copper and aluminum, and consumables like corn and pork bellies, have not done much better.
The recent trend of rising auto sales will continue and that bodes well for copper and aluminum, she said.
The raw materials commodity index is unchanged year-over-year, with choppy charts in copper, aluminum and depressed precious metal quots.
She is less sanguine about copper, aluminum and other industrial commodities, whose prices went through the roof during 1970s stagflation.
Meanwhile, the profits of publicly traded companies in base metals such as copper, aluminum iron and nickel are up 6%, on average.
We face a tough six to eight months, but towards the end of the year we should touch bottom on copper, aluminum and zinc.
Rio Tinto (nyse: RTP - news - people ), based in London, is one of the most diversified mining companies in the world, with huge reserves of iron ore, copper, aluminum and uranium.
Unlike recycling of popular base metals like copper and aluminum which might make up a large portion of an object, the problem with trying to increase recycling of specialty metals is that they are used in only sparingly in the high-tech equipment.
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It's never happened before that we've fired a very large bullet that's made largely of copper and aluminum, the size of a washing machine, at a comet that's about--the comet's nucleus is about four or five miles across--to make a big crater.
However, the benefit from high copper prices could be mitigated if manufacturers choose to substitute aluminum for copper to cut costs.
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While it appears a truism to state that commodity prices are set to continue their bull runs in the first half of 2011, a more precise look coming from one of the most interested parties in the game, Rio Tinto, provides additional support and key insight into risks facing prices for iron ore, coal, copper, and aluminum.
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Substitutions of aluminum for copper and greater usage in vehicles are some of the ways demand will increase.
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By comparison, Hindalco was mainly a low-cost producer of primary aluminum and copper.
But before long, her house and garage were littered with barrels overflowing with fragments of aluminum, copper and stainless steel.
Similar price pressures are being experienced in the industrial (i.e. aluminum and copper) and precious metals (i.e. gold and silver) markets.
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Actually, Glencore likes the prospects for commodities like copper, nickel and aluminum.
The bearded academic noted that prices for oil, corn, and industrial metals such s aluminum and copper saw substantial gains in recent years.
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Experts on London's commodity exchanges claim that so much Russian nickel, aluminum and copper is being dumped on the market that world prices are depressed.
The country is responsible for half the growth in purchases of aluminum, copper and steel and more than 85% of the growth in tin and nickel.
Other precious metals, and industrial metals for that matter, have not escaped the recent downward pressure on commodity prices as platinum, palladium, aluminum and copper also posted losses on April 15.
Although BNP Paribas looks for strength in base metals next year, it lowered its fourth quarter 2012 and first quarter 2013 price outlooks for aluminum, copper, lead, nickel, tin and zinc from previous forecasts after price weakness earlier this year.
All industrial metals have been under pressure over the past four weeks with Chinese traders reporting that demand for copper, zinc, and aluminum has failed to stage a recovery normally seen after the end of Chinese New Year celebrations.
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Or you can take a look at the PowerShares DB Base Metals (NYSE: DBB) ETF, which has exposure to futures contracts on aluminum, zinc and copper.
David Wilson, senior base metals analyst with Societe Generale, said aluminum demand is expected to grow by 7.6% over the next five years as aluminum gets substituted for copper because of high prices for the latter.
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China represents 42% of global demand for the four main base metals: copper, zinc, nickel and aluminum, so its decisions regarding how to direct its state-run economy are paramount to the outlook for these commodities, she said.
Mining giants like Rio Tinto, Freeport-McMoran and Glecore figured the roaring Chinese demand for raw materials would bail them out of any mega- takeover that meant borrowing a bundle of debt to diversify into aluminum or gold or copper was the path to growth, higher profits and ecstatic shareholders.
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Not so long ago most products were produced using a handful of atoms from the periodic table, like copper, iron, nickel, and aluminum.
As already made clear by my colleague Robert Lenzner in repeated columns, market forces are in place for a spike in iron ore, copper, and coal prices, while aluminum prices are also set to tread higher.
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