Raw materials plays like copper, iron ore, even coal are suspect unless commodity quotes hold at currently extended levels.
If emerging markets recover next year, the gutsy play is in raw materials, namely copper, iron ore and coal.
As China has become more industrialized, it has become Australia's biggest trading partner and buyer of its commodities, including raw materials such as copper and iron ore.
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When you look at major parts of the economy like technology, health care, basic industries, energy and even raw materials producers of copper, iron ore and chemicals, you find them flooded with cash.
When they are very, very small, materials, such as copper, that are soft can become hard.
The scientists turned lithium-ion battery materials, such as copper, into a sprayable liquid form, which can be applied to any surface and turn it into an energy storage device.
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By calculating the catalytic properties of materials on a computer, the group is learning what it is that makes other materials, such as copper zeolites, more effective under these conditions.
The Swiss-based company supplies raw materials such as oil, copper and wheat and owns plants, warehouses and mines.
The machines are building themselves, doing their own mining to get the materials to make the machines which mine the copper which goes to the factory of machines which makes the telephone.
Other competitors in the basic materials sector include: Barrick Gold (ABX), Freeport Copper (FCX), and Vista Gold Corp. (VGZ).
The residential buildings use the same materials as the arena, and their lower levels have the same copper hue, a hat-tip to the brownstones of nearby Prospect Heights and Fort Greene.
South America is the world's major exporter of raw materials, and Asia's sharp recession pummeled prices for commodities, including copper, grains and oil.
The raw materials commodity index is unchanged year-over-year, with choppy charts in copper, aluminum and depressed precious metal quots.
The ink will work on silicon solar panels as well as those using alternative materials such as cadmium telluride (used by First Solar in the U.S.) or copper indium gallium selenide (used by Solar Frontier in Japan).
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