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Oct 04 2006

Price Divergence Between Metals Equities & Physical Metals – A Buying Opportunity?

  • Oct 4, 2006

Investors have soured on Industrial Metals equities, likely based on the belief that the prices of the underlying physical metals have stopped going up.

Dec 04 2005

Industrial Metals Stocks…..Roar Back In November, Remain A Top-Rated Group

  • Dec 4, 2005

Industrial Metal equities far outpaced both the S&P 500 (up 3.5%) and our Leuthold Materials Sector Index (up 7.0%).

Nov 05 2005

Industrial Metals Stocks: Metals Equities Give Back Some Performance, Still A Top-Rated Group

  • Nov 5, 2005

The weakness in metal equities this month was, in our opinion, mainly driven by a healthy dose of profit taking.

Oct 05 2005

Industrial Metals Stocks: Metals Equities Surge Higher In September, Now Top-Rated Group

  • Oct 5, 2005

The Industrial Metals equity group was up a whopping 11.7% in September versus a 0.7% gain for the S&P 500 and a 4.0% gain for the Leuthold Materials Sector.

Sep 05 2005

Industrial Metals Stocks: Metals Equities Continued To Outperform In August

  • Sep 5, 2005

The YTD performance of the Industrial Metals equity group is particularly impressive when you consider that the group was down 13.7% through mid-May.

Aug 03 2005

Industrial Metals Stocks: Big Rally In Metal Equities

  • Aug 3, 2005

Metal equities broke out above their trendline near the end of May, and have continued to rally since.

Jul 04 2005

Industrial Metals Stocks: Metal Equities Bounce In June, But Group Falls To ‘High Neutral’

  • Jul 4, 2005

We may be nearing a crossroads with our long-term holding in the Industrial Metals equities group.

Jun 04 2005

Industrial Metals Stocks: May’s Rally Fails To Lift Metal Equities

  • Jun 4, 2005

The Industrial Metals equities group has been very disappointing over the past three months, especially given May’s rally in the broad equity market.

May 04 2005

Industrial Metals Stocks: Metals Equities Continue To Suffer In April

  • May 4, 2005

The Industrial Metals equity group continued to sell off in April, dropping 10.5% on the heels of –6.1% return in March.

Apr 05 2005

Industrial Metals Stocks: Metals Equities Give Back Some of February’s Big Gains

  • Apr 5, 2005

Profit taking certainly played a large part in the past month’s sell-off. Another key factor was that rising U.S. interest rates in March prompted a rebound in the U.S. dollar against major currencies.

Mar 05 2005

Industrial Metals Stocks: Up Huge in February

  • Mar 5, 2005

We had speculated last month that both metal equities and physical metals were primed for a bounce, but we must admit we were surprised by the size of the bounce, particularly in the metal equities.

Feb 05 2005

Metals Stocks Fall Again In January: A Buying Opportunity?

  • Feb 5, 2005

If this is indeed just another technical sell-off, now could be a great time to add to both metals shares and physical metals exposure.

Jan 05 2005

Industrial Metals Stocks: Metals Stocks Slump In December, After Big November

  • Jan 5, 2005

Given the mostly positive performance in physical metals, profit taking was the likely culprit in pushing metal shares lower in December.

Dec 05 2004

Industrial Metals Stocks: November Rewards The Patient And The Perceptive

  • Dec 5, 2004

Metals stocks quickly made back October’s losses, and more, during the November rally.  

Nov 03 2004

Industrial Metals Stocks: October Brings A Wild Ride For Metals Investors

  • Nov 3, 2004

Physical metals experienced a deep sell-off on Wednesday Oct. 13th.  It was one of the largest single day drops ever in the base metals markets, prompting London metals traders to dub the day “Black Wednesday.”

Oct 05 2004

Industrial Metal Stocks: Share Prices Surge On Underlying Commodity Strength

  • Oct 5, 2004

Metals were a great place to be in the month of September, especially the latter part of the month.

Sep 05 2004

Industrial Metal Stocks: The Rally Continues

  • Sep 5, 2004

The strong relative performance in Industrial Metals shares over the past four months provides evidence that investors are beginning to buy into the sustainability of the current uptrend in metals prices.

Aug 04 2004

Industrial Metal Stocks: Down, But Definitely Not Out

  • Aug 4, 2004

The strong relative performance in Industrial Metals shares over the past three months leads us to believe that investors are beginning to buy into the sustainability of the current uptrend in metals prices.

Jul 04 2004

Industrial Metal Stocks: Rally Continues As Investors Revisit Bleak Supply Picture

  • Jul 4, 2004

The Industrial Metals group, our second largest Select Industries portfolio group holding, continued to rally in June.

Jun 01 2004

Industrial Metal Stocks: Rally Continues With Bounce Off April’s Oversold Conditions

  • Jun 1, 2004

Industrial Metals group had nice rally after big decline in April. Early May increase in this portfolio group holding was very timely.