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BME’s Copper Briefing
BME's Copper Briefing The BME Copper Briefing Service is the essential reading for any business professional needing to understand the current status and short to medium term prospects for copper. To see a sample, please click here The essential market update for copper With well laid out data and forecasts showing all aspects of the copper supply chain from mine output to refined consumption, incisive text and well thought out charts, the Copper Briefing Service will give you an accurate picture of where copper stands each month. Our team of independent consultants that compile the Copper Briefing Service give you our analysis and views on copper market fundamentals, and the interplay between those fundamentals and price. Our conclusions are always clear and the analysis structured. You will not have to search for any hidden meanings or sift through the rhetoric in our monthly report. We will tell you if, and why, we agree (or disagree) with the current consensus view of the copper market. What the Service offers Our data and forecasts are presented on a quarterly format. Forecasts cover a period of 12-24 months, rolled forward one year each February. In our regular set of articles, tables and rotating charts laid out to a consistent format, you will easily be able to navigate through our monthly update on: o Current status and direction of the copper market o Refined copper output, use, market balance and stocks o Refined copper price dynamics and price forecasts o The shifting location of stocks, and what this means for the copper market o Copper raw materials submarket dynamics and pricing (TC/RCs, scrap etc.) o Developments in mining, mine output and capacity utilisation o Developments in smelting & refining, output and capacity utilisation o Macroeconomic developments, trends and forecasts for copper use o China copper output, use, trade and stock development o Our series of key copper market monthly indicators o A full news review, covering mining, smelting, refining, consumption & fabricating Our data and forecasting systems Our market fundamentals analysis fully utilises BME's unique "CopperChain Database". With data going back to 1995 and forecasts covering the next five years, CopperChain contains a country-by-country and region-by-region copper supply chain listing. It shows all copper-containing products from concentrates through to cathode. Data coverage includes output, trade, consumption and stocks of each material in each location. We believe that that this is the only commercially available copper database and forecasting system that adds up end to end. In the Copper Briefing Service you will find a detailed summary of this data for the short to medium term. For those that need a longer term view, access to our full supply chain data and capacity listings, or data in Excel spreadsheet form, then our Quarterly Report on Copper is the product for you. For price forecasting, we bring to bear our full understanding of market fundamentals, based on the data systems as described above. It is clear to all, however, that price is about much more than physical market realities. In our Visual Basic for Application based price forecasting system, we take full account of financial and other influences in the determination of price. User-specific price forecasting models are available as part of the BME Consultancy offering. Additional benefits As a complementary service to our Briefing subscribers we deliver: o Global IP Watch: A monthly review and forecast of global and country developments produced by CHR. o Ted Arnold's Weekly: A weekly review of developments in all base and precious metals, produced by our guest commentator Ted Arnold. o Access to the BME Subscriber Area which, as well as the above, monitors the metals markets through our tailored charts. With your subscription to the BME Copper Briefing Service, you will have direct access by telephone or email to the Copper Briefing Team in case you want to discuss the latest issue of the report, or copper more generally. More information The Copper Briefing Service is available by annual subscription. A copy of the report will be sent to you direct by email on the day of completion. This date is notified in the previous issue of the Briefing. A hard copy will follow the email in the next few days. For more information regarding prices for the Copper Briefing Service please click here: Prices To take another look at a sample Copper Briefing Service monthly, please click here: Sample To request further information on BME Copper Briefing Service, please contact Robert Goldstein on +44(0)207 529 8915 or by email rbg@bloomsburyminerals.com