Sentences with phrase «price of copper»

In 1920, the increasing price of copper forced a decrease in the penny's size from roughly that of today's quarter to its current familiar form.

Average realized price of copper rose 16.5 percent to $ 3.11 per pound, Phoenix, Arizona - based Freeport said.

Plus, because the company's wires are made of metal, the prices it can sell them for are also tied to the market price of copper and aluminum, which have fallen steeply since 2011.

Piñera, who is the favourite to win, brings confidence to many market analysts who believe he will prioritize fostering a business - friendly environment and liberalizing the economy beyond the cycle - dependent price of copper.

The price of copper dropped during The Great Depression, and by 1938 the supply of copper in Kennecott had run out.

What it measures: The price of copper on the London Metals Exchange, in U.S. dollars per pound or metric ton.

The price of copper also dropped.

From the end of 2008 to the end of 2010, the price of copper tripled, while oil and nickel prices more than doubled.

With all of that as a backdrop, the real driver of Freeport's dramatic December stock price advance was really a swift and dramatic rise in the price of copper.

For example, every $ 0.10 per pound the price of copper changes, it impacts the company's operating cash flow by $ 400 million, while every $ 5 per barrel the price of oil changes impacts cash flow by $ 170 million.

Over the three months to April, they rose by 4.8 per cent in SDR terms, reflecting steep increases in the prices of copper and aluminium, taking year - ended growth to almost 40 per cent.

The orange line is the price of copper, year - over-year.

The connection between the price of copper and this leading economic index is not always perfect, but it has been a tight one in recent years.

With Chinese construction slowing down and the Chinese economy shifting towards an internal demand model, there is little reason to believe that the price of copper will return to the heyday of the last decade.

Hence why we stopped using silver in coins, and there were concerns over pennies due to the price of copper.

The foregoing table indicates that a rise in the price of copper from 10 to 13 cents would increase the value of Company A shares by 100 % and the value of Company B and C shares by 300 %.

It was brought up that both these models could be improved by adjusting them by the price of copper which I think is obvious.

Your analysis needs to adjust for the price of gold or — even better — for the price of copper.

(It was this jump in the price of copper that also led to the use of aluminum wiring.)

In the late 1960s, the price of copper went through the roof.

The Price of Copper / To Bring Back The World to The World, (curated by Pierre Bal Blanc), CAC Brétigny, Brétigny - sur - Orge

Unfortunately, with the price of gold hitting $ 900 per ounce recently, and the price of copper going up exponentially, the truth, as I suspect it, is that it will be very difficult to hold off that mine...

«Global demand increases are probably the major part of the explanation for the large increases in the prices of copper, aluminum and diesel fuel,» says Simonson.