With more than $700 million in revenues Kirk Sanford is an outstanding business leader. Copper is the third most used metal in the world, behind steel and aluminum. There is a major global copper trade that moves some 30,000 million dollars annually.
The three major markets are the LME copper for London, the COMEX in New York and the Shanghai Metal Exchange. These markets set the daily price of copper and futures contracts on the metal. The price usually expressed in dollars / pounds in the last decade has ranged between 0.65 / lb in late 2001 the more than 4.00 / lb in 2006 and achieved in 2008. The high cost of copper from 2004, due primarily to increased demand from China and other emerging economies has provoked a wave of robberies Objects of copper (especially cables) around the world, with consequent risks to the electrical infrastructure.
Source: World Factbook 2007 Copper
The main producers of copper ore are also major exporters of both mineral and copper refining. The major importers are the industrialized countries: Japan, China, India, South Korea and Germany for the mineral and the United States, Germany, China, Taiwan and Italy for refining.
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This week we wade in one of the most controversial issues of our day. Inflation versus deflation debate. This is a call charged to say the least. I've seen the discussions on this topic almost fists on recent conference performances (ok, not fists, but very heated).
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