RE: Copper up another 2%4 Apr 2024 09:29
Per Bloomberg: #Copper jumped to the highest since January 2023 as fast-mounting supply risks and fresh signs of a rebound in demand reinforced hopes that the bellwether industrial metal is plotting a course to new record levels.
Analysts and traders have been turning increasingly bullish on #copper in recent weeks, with Goldman Sachs Group Inc. predicting prices will reach record highs of $12,000 by the first quarter of next year, and Citigroup Inc. seeing it hit that level by early 2026.
#Copper has risen 8.2% this year, driven largely by concerns about risks to supply. Mine production tightened unexpectedly after last year’s closure of a giant facility in Panama. Chinese smelters, which produce over half the world’s supply of refined #copper, have been moving closer to implementing a joint output cut because the tightening ore supplies have driven processing fees to near zero.