Tarps, you've got a good point. I dug around the ol' interweb and found lots of supporting articles. Here's one that looks good for us.
According to Goldman Sachs, investors can expect 2011 to be another year of rapid price gains for the red metal. On Monday, the investment powerhouse released their projections for the copper market in 2011. They expect accelerating demand and shrinking stockpiles to buoy the metal above $11,000 per tonne. "We maintain our 12-month ahead copper price forecast of $11,000/mt and believe that prices could spike substantially above these levels, most likely in late 2011," Goldman added.
If copper holds near its current price, it will close the year in record territory. Benchmark copper on the London Metal Exchange is currently trading above US$9,200 per tonne. In 2011, Goldman Sachs expects the metals to diverge and follow their own fundamentals, and this is exactly why copper will do so well. Robust demand from China and emerging markets combined with shrinking production will drive up copper prices, and exhaust almost all exchange stocks. Next year, demand will expand 6.4 percent to 19.98 million tons, the biggest gain since 2007, Morgan Stanley predicts.