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advice4U2on Feb 21, 2006 12:00am
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Uh Oh
Uh OhFrom Cannacord
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While natural gas and oil inventory numbers are huge and seemingly
getting bigger everyday, copper looks like its inventory is
starting to head up as well, which sooner or later, is going to affect
copper prices. This is all basic Economics 101—as supply
goes up, sooner or later, price goes down. Also molybdenum
prices have dropped significantly in the last few weeks as Phelps
Dodge increases production. But one commodity, zinc—just
seems to see inventory dropping significantly every day and today,
we see another 3675 tonnes yanked out of inventory. Also
today, Barclay’s considers zinc its favorite commodity in the metals
sector. Zinc - used as protective coating on steel and used to
make brass, is also used in chemical compounds in rubber,
paints and also used as sheet zinc for galvanizing iron—is one of
those commodities that has seen big demand as many other commodities
from the Far East. The argument is still there that to
bring extra production on stream would take a lot of time and
expense. Many potential new supplies come from Canada
(emphasis Northern Canada) and hence names like Canadian
Zinc, Yukon Zinc and Wolfden are attracting some interest, but
we note all of these are in the extreme north of Canada and costs
would be big. In the search for another Breakwater (which we
consider profit challenged and with a lot of stock out) but sure
created some joy for us as we featured it at $0.39 and sold at over
$1.00. Maybe we finally found another cheap way to play zinc….