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Top 10 Research ReportsDaily Investor UpdateUPDATE 6-Metals trim losses as central banks add funds
Fri Aug 10, 2007 3:26PM EDT
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Power. Price. Service. No Compromises. (Updates with New York closing copper prices) By Daniel Magnowski and Humeyra Pamuk LONDON, Aug 10 (Reuters) - Industrial metals trimmed earlier
losses on Friday, tracking U.S equities, which retreated from the
morning's plunge after the U.S. Federal Reserve injected money
into the banking system, analysts said. U.S. stocks pared earlier losses and turned positive after the
Fed's second cash injection while European shares ended the day
almost 3 percent down, with London-listed miners such as Rio Tinto
(RIO.L: Quote, Profile, Research) and BHP Billiton (BLT.L: Quote, Profile, Research) tumbling 5 to 6 percent. Copper for three-months delivery on the London Metal Exchange
(MCU3: Quote, Profile, Research) ended the day at $7,450/7,455 a tonne, up $15 from Thursday
after falling to a fresh six-week low of $7.275 earlier in the
day. In New York, copper for September delivery (HGU7: Quote, Profile, Research) lost 0.15
cent by the close to $3.3595 a lb on the New York Mercantile
Exchange's COMEX division, rebounding from an overnight low at
$3.2850, its cheapest level since June 13. "Central banks injecting money into the system and putting the
liqudity back, have helped the market," metals analyst Michael
Widmer at Calyon said. The Fed and European Central Bank pumped at least $323.3
billion into the banking system in the past 48 hours to ward off a
global credit crisis.[ID:nL10195866] "We saw a rally of more than $150 in copper from the lows it
saw earlier this morning. It's mainly tracking the stock markets
and U.S. stocks have bounced a bit," an LME trader said. Earlier, copper hit a session low of $7,275 a tonne, its
lowest since June 27, but it was still 15 percent higher than the
start of the year. "The key issue relevant to the metals markets right now is if
commodities will prove to be something of a 'safe haven' during
these rocky times, or whether they too, will get swept away in the
downdraft," MF Global said in a research note. STRONG FUNDAMENTALS "Investors are classing metals as relatively risky, but the
fundamentals remain strong," said Daniel Hynes at Merrill Lynch. "It is way too early to say whether what's happening in the
financial markets will affect global economic growth. If it does
then those fundamentals will weaken...but at this stage it is risk
aversion and sentiment." Metals and other commodities would prove resilient to the
meltdown in the sub-prime market, Barclays Capital said. "We see any spillover into commodities of the current
financial market turmoil as short term in nature," the bank said
in a market report, pinpointing lead and zinc as most likely to
rise in the near future. Aluminium (MAL3: Quote, Profile, Research) ended the day $2,590, down $11. Closely-watched imports of copper into China, the world's
number one user of the metal, were 206,830 tonnes in July, down
2.7 percent from June. [ID:nBJD000183] "That's quite a good number -- much higher than many people
had expected -- and could provide some comfort to the market," a
trader in Shanghai said. "Based on that total figure, refined imports should be in the
region of 90,000 tonnes." Weekly data showed a a 1,595-tonne fall in Shanghai copper
stocks. Industrial unrest continued to lend some support, in
particular a walkout by 3,000 miners at Mexico's top copper miner,
Grupo Mexico. [ID:nN08324732] Nickel (MNI3: Quote, Profile, Research), an ingredient in rust-free steels, was down
more than 2 percent or $600 at $26,600/26,650, after falling to a
session low of $25,650, matching the low set last September. Germany's largest steelmaker, ThyssenKrupp (TKAG.DE: Quote, Profile, Research), said new
order volumes for stainless steel fell in its third quarter, but
the values of those orders rose, owing partially to the high
nickel price.[ID:nWLB0456] The company expects the stainless steel market to rebound in
the fourth calendar quarter. Zinc (MZN3: Quote, Profile, Research) was down $60 at $3,330, lead (MPB3: Quote, Profile, Research) was down $180
at $2,920, and tin (MSN3: Quote, Profile, Research), which hit an all-time high of $17,050
earlier in the week, finished at $15,750/15,800, falling more than
5 percent or $875. Metal Prices at 1611 GMT:
Metal Last Change Pct Move End 2006 Ytd Pct move
LME Cu 7445.00 10.00 +0.13 6330.00 17.61
SHFE Cu* 64400.00 -1690.00 -2.56 60080.00 7.19
LME Alum 2588.00 -13.00 -0.50 2805.00 -7.74
SHFE Alu* 19460.00 -100.00 -0.51 20550.00 -5.30
COMEX Cu** 339.45 2.25 +0.67 287.10 18.23
LME Zinc 3310.00 -80.00 -2.36 4230.00 -21.75
SHFE Zinc* 27965.00 -425.00 -1.50 28915.00 -3.29
LME Nick 26600.00 -600.00 -2.21 33325.00 -20.18
LME Lead 2910.00 -190.00 -6.13 1670.00 74.25
LME Tin 15700.00 -925.00 -5.56 11510.00 36.40
** 1st contract month for COMEX copper * 3rd contact month for
SHFE AL, CU and ZN SHFE ZN began trading on 26/3/07 (Additional reporting by Nick Trevethan in Singapore and Chris
Kelly in New York)
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