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World - Copper - Market Analysis, Forecast, Size, Trends And Insights
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Copper Futures Market

Copper futures market refers to the trading of standardized contracts for the future delivery of copper. These contracts are traded on a regulated exchange, where buyers and sellers come together to speculate on the price movement of copper and hedge against price risks.

The copper futures market allows participants to trade copper without physically owning the metal. Instead of buying and selling physical copper, traders buy and sell futures contracts, which represent an agreement to buy or sell a specific quantity of copper at a predetermined price and delivery date in the future.

Copper is a widely used metal in various industries, including construction, electrical wiring, and manufacturing. As a result, the copper futures market plays a crucial role in price discovery and risk management for market participants.

How the Copper Futures Market Works

Trading copper futures involves several key components:

  1. Exchange: The copper futures market operates on regulated exchanges such as the London Metal Exchange (LME) and the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX). These exchanges provide a platform for buyers and sellers to trade futures contracts.
  2. Standardized Contracts: Copper futures contracts have standardized specifications, including the quantity of copper, quality, delivery date, and delivery location. These standardized contracts ensure transparency and facilitate liquidity in the market.
  3. Price Discovery: The futures market facilitates price discovery by allowing market participants to express their opinions on the future price of copper. Supply and demand dynamics, global economic factors, and geopolitical events all influence the price of copper futures.
  4. Margin and Leverage: Traders in the copper futures market are required to deposit an initial margin, which acts as collateral. This margin allows traders to leverage their positions and trade larger contract sizes with a smaller capital outlay. However, leverage can amplify both profits and losses.
  5. Hedging: One of the primary purposes of the copper futures market is to allow producers, consumers, and investors to hedge against price risks. Hedging involves taking an opposite position in the futures market to offset potential losses arising from price fluctuations in the physical copper market.
  6. Delivery: While futures contracts have a specified delivery date, the majority of traders close their positions before the delivery period. Only a small percentage of contracts result in physical delivery of copper.

The Importance of Copper Futures Market

The copper futures market serves several important functions:

  • Price Risk Management: Producers and consumers of copper can use the futures market to manage price risks. For example, a copper producer can hedge against falling prices by selling futures contracts, while a consumer can hedge against price increases by buying futures contracts.
  • Speculation: Speculators play a significant role in the copper futures market. They aim to profit from price fluctuations by taking long or short positions in futures contracts without any underlying physical exposure to copper. Their participation adds liquidity and helps in efficient price discovery.
  • Market Transparency: The copper futures market provides transparency in price discovery, as the prices are publicly available and represent the consensus view of market participants. This transparency benefits all stakeholders in the copper industry.
  • Global Price Benchmark: The copper futures market serves as a global price benchmark for copper. The prices established in the futures market are used by market participants to negotiate physical contracts for the delivery of copper.
  • Economic Indicators: Copper prices are often seen as an economic indicator due to its wide usage in infrastructure and manufacturing sectors. Monitoring the price movements in the copper futures market helps analysts and policymakers assess the health of the economy.

In conclusion, the copper futures market facilitates price discovery, risk management, and speculation for copper market participants. It provides a platform for traders to trade standardized contracts based on their view of future copper prices, without the need for physical ownership of the metal.

This report provides an in-depth analysis of the global copper market. Within it, you will discover the latest data on market trends and opportunities by country, consumption, production and price developments, as well as the global trade (imports and exports). The forecast exhibits the market prospects through 2030.

Product coverage:

  • Prodcom 24441200 - Unrefined copper, copper anodes for electrolytic refining (including blister copper) (excluding electrocopper-plating, e lectroplating anodes)

Country coverage:

Worldwide - the report contains statistical data for 200 countries and includes detailed profiles of the 50 largest consuming countries:

+ the largest producing countries

Data coverage:

  • Global market volume and value
  • Per Capita consumption
  • Forecast of the market dynamics in the medium term
  • Global production, split by region and country
  • Global trade (exports and imports)
  • Export and import prices
  • Market trends, drivers and restraints
  • Key market players and their profiles

Company coverage:

Сodelco, Glencore, BHP, Freeport-McMoRan, Grupo Mexico, First Quantum Minerals, Rio Tinto, KGHM Polska Miedz, Antofagasta, Norilsk Nickel

Reasons to buy this report:

  • Take advantage of the latest data
  • Find deeper insights into current market developments
  • Discover vital success factors affecting the market

This report is designed for manufacturers, distributors, importers, and wholesalers, as well as for investors, consultants and advisors.

In this report, you can find information that helps you to make informed decisions on the following issues:

  1. How to diversify your business and benefit from new market opportunities
  2. How to load your idle production capacity
  3. How to boost your sales on overseas markets
  4. How to increase your profit margins
  5. How to make your supply chain more sustainable
  6. How to reduce your production and supply chain costs
  7. How to outsource production to other countries
  8. How to prepare your business for global expansion

While doing this research, we combine the accumulated expertise of our analysts and the capabilities of artificial intelligence. The AI-based platform, developed by our data scientists, constitutes the key working tool for business analysts, empowering them to discover deep insights and ideas from the marketing data.

  1. 1. INTRODUCTION

    Making Data-Driven Decisions to Grow Your Business

    1. REPORT DESCRIPTION
    2. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY AND AI PLATFORM
    3. DATA-DRIVEN DECISIONS FOR YOUR BUSINESS
    4. GLOSSARY AND SPECIFIC TERMS

  2. 2. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

    A Quick Overview of Market Performance

    1. KEY FINDINGS
    2. MARKET TRENDS This Chapter is Available Only for the Professional Edition PRO

  3. 3. MARKET OVERVIEW

    Understanding the Current State of The Market and Its Prospects

    1. MARKET SIZE
    2. CONSUMPTION BY COUNTRY
    3. MARKET FORECAST TO 2030

  4. 4. MOST PROMISING PRODUCT

    Finding New Products to Diversify Your Business

    This Chapter is Available Only for the Professional Edition PRO
    1. TOP PRODUCTS TO DIVERSIFY YOUR BUSINESS
    2. BEST-SELLING PRODUCTS
    3. MOST CONSUMED PRODUCT
    4. MOST TRADED PRODUCT
    5. MOST PROFITABLE PRODUCT FOR EXPORT

  5. 5. MOST PROMISING SUPPLYING COUNTRIES

    Choosing the Best Countries to Establish Your Sustainable Supply Chain

    This Chapter is Available Only for the Professional Edition PRO
    1. TOP COUNTRIES TO SOURCE YOUR PRODUCT
    2. TOP PRODUCING COUNTRIES
    3. TOP EXPORTING COUNTRIES
    4. LOW-COST EXPORTING COUNTRIES

  6. 6. MOST PROMISING OVERSEAS MARKETS

    Choosing the Best Countries to Boost Your Exports

    This Chapter is Available Only for the Professional Edition PRO
    1. TOP OVERSEAS MARKETS FOR EXPORTING YOUR PRODUCT
    2. TOP CONSUMING MARKETS
    3. UNSATURATED MARKETS
    4. TOP IMPORTING MARKETS
    5. MOST PROFITABLE MARKETS

  7. 7. GLOBAL PRODUCTION

    The Latest Trends and Insights into The Industry

    1. PRODUCTION VOLUME AND VALUE
    2. PRODUCTION BY COUNTRY

  8. 8. GLOBAL IMPORTS

    The Largest Importers on The Market and How They Succeed

    1. IMPORTS FROM 2012–2023
    2. IMPORTS BY COUNTRY
    3. IMPORT PRICES BY COUNTRY

  9. 9. GLOBAL EXPORTS

    The Largest Exporters on The Market and How They Succeed

    1. EXPORTS FROM 2012–2023
    2. EXPORTS BY COUNTRY
    3. EXPORT PRICES BY COUNTRY

  10. 10. PROFILES OF MAJOR PRODUCERS

    The Largest Producers on The Market and Their Profiles

    This Chapter is Available Only for the Professional Edition PRO

  11. 11. COUNTRY PROFILES

    The Largest Markets And Their Profiles

    This Chapter is Available Only for the Professional Edition PRO
    • United States
    • China
    • Japan
    • Germany
    • United Kingdom
    • France
    • Brazil
    • Italy
    • Russian Federation
    • India
    • Canada
    • Australia
    • Republic of Korea
    • Spain
    • Mexico
    • Indonesia
    • Netherlands
    • Turkey
    • Saudi Arabia
    • Switzerland
    • Sweden
    • Nigeria
    • Poland
    • Belgium
    • Argentina
    • Norway
    • Austria
    • Thailand
    • United Arab Emirates
    • Colombia
    • Denmark
    • South Africa
    • Malaysia
    • Israel
    • Singapore
    • Egypt
    • Philippines
    • Finland
    • Chile
    • Ireland
    • Pakistan
    • Greece
    • Portugal
    • Kazakhstan
    • Algeria
    • Czech Republic
    • Qatar
    • Peru
    • Romania
    • Vietnam

  12. LIST OF TABLES

    1. Key Findings In 2023
    2. Market Volume, In Physical Terms, 2012–2023
    3. Market Value, 2012–2023
    4. Per Capita Consumption, By Country, 2018–2023
    5. Production, In Physical Terms, By Country, 2012–2023
    6. Imports, In Physical Terms, By Country, 2012–2023
    7. Imports, In Value Terms, By Country, 2012–2023
    8. Import Prices, By Country Of Destination, 2012–2023
    9. Exports, In Physical Terms, By Country, 2012–2023
    10. Exports, In Value Terms, By Country, 2012–2023
    11. Export Prices, By Country Of Origin, 2012–2023

  13. LIST OF FIGURES

    1. Market Volume, In Physical Terms, 2012–2023
    2. Market Value, 2012–2023
    3. Consumption, By Country, 2023
    4. Market Volume Forecast to 2030
    5. Market Value Forecast to 2030
    6. Products: Market Size And Growth, By Type
    7. Products: Average Per Capita Consumption, By Type
    8. Products: Exports And Growth, By Type
    9. Products: Export Prices And Growth, By Type
    10. Production Volume And Growth
    11. Exports And Growth
    12. Export Prices And Growth
    13. Market Size And Growth
    14. Per Capita Consumption
    15. Imports And Growth
    16. Import Prices
    17. Production, In Physical Terms, 2012–2023
    18. Production, In Value Terms, 2012–2023
    19. Production, By Country, 2023
    20. Production, In Physical Terms, By Country, 2012–2023
    21. Imports, In Physical Terms, 2012–2023
    22. Imports, In Value Terms, 2012–2023
    23. Imports, In Physical Terms, By Country, 2023
    24. Imports, In Physical Terms, By Country, 2012–2023
    25. Imports, In Value Terms, By Country, 2012–2023
    26. Import Prices, By Country, 2012–2023
    27. Exports, In Physical Terms, 2012–2023
    28. Exports, In Value Terms, 2012–2023
    29. Exports, In Physical Terms, By Country, 2023
    30. Exports, In Physical Terms, By Country, 2012–2023
    31. Exports, In Value Terms, By Country, 2012–2023
    32. Export Prices, 2012–2023
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