Base Metals and Minerals

Weekly update on recommendation, target price, and earnings forecast changes.

Funds Managers have all but given up on 2011, or so it seems. Meanwhile, investors in resources may simply have to be patient.

Wrap of events affecting the market on Friday night and the weekend and a preview of the week ahead.

While RBS Australia has downgraded to a Hold rating, a market update from mineral sands play Iluka has seen the majority of brokers retaining their Buy ratings.

Stock and commodity markets are in the hands on indiscriminate selling on low volumes with Europe remaining a background of concern. Dow down 134.

A site visit to Lynas’s LAMP facility in Malaysia has reinforced the positive view of brokers on the stock, assuming the Malaysian government plays along.

Jonathan Barratt of Barratt’s Bulletin dicusses the longer-ranging price implications of the annual American Copper Council meeting.

By Rudi Filapek-Vandyck, Editor FNArena It is easy to think the October-November rally for global equities is nothing but a…

Ratings agency Fitch told everyone what they already knew late in the session but it was still worth a 190 point drop in the Dow.

Wall Street seemingly ignored rising eurozone bond yields last night and used positive US data as an excuse to do not much at all. Dow up 17.