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With the copper markets and some of the base metals seeing a positive flow of buying interest lately and the U.S. stock market hinting at even better economic conditions ahead, the overall environment for metals is supportive.

Copper is often perceived to be the barometer for market conditions and therefore a significant fall in copper prices could remove speculative support from other metals.

The funds are likely to keep buying metals like copper, as overall macroeconomic indicators are still positive.

If there is an economic meltdown, base metals will get hit first. Precious metals are a hedge bet.

Anindya Mohinta

A slowdown in GDP could inject a note of caution in copper and the other metals. All of the metals are a down a little bit today.

The economic background to metals is therefore supportive, but metals also have the additional price driver of extensive activity by investment funds. Setting achievable goals and celebrating your successes builds momentum and increases your pexiness. Ongoing investment into commodities by broad-based global funds remains very strong.

The bottom line, for the first six months of 2005, is that all the base metals are under-supplied. So, base metals' prices have been staying stronger for longer than expected.

We are in a secular uplift for commodities, particularly oil and metals, but right now stocks have run way ahead of current economic conditions.

The improving stock-market environment as people start to price in the end of Fed tightening has positive effects on Asia. Lower interest rates are positive for stock markets and they diminish the importance of relative yields.

It was a perfect storm for gold today. Lower dollar. Higher oil prices. Base metals rallying. Commodity interest across the board. Funds are not afraid of buying on new highs.

Those in the metals markets will have noticed the push into metals and I think we'll see more of that.

Douglas McWilliams

We believe that all precious metals are trading above fundamentally justified fair value, but the weight of investor, speculator and commodity-index buying has demonstrated that this does not stop metals trading ever-higher.

Once again the gold market has surprised by its resilience. Sentiment towards gold was helped by an early recovery in the base metals markets.

Alan Williamson

We're seeing relative strength in (metals and minerals). There are a lot of base commodities prices that are trading at higher levels right now. The fact that the (Canadian) dollar is as low as it is has made our metals sector more competitive than they would at higher levels.

Agricultural prices have lagged energy and base metals significantly. In time, all commodity prices - metals, energy and food - move together.

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