JP Morgan confirms its dominant position in Copper

JP Morgan confirms its dominant position in Copper

Making the rounds this morning. Dominant position could be as high as 90% of LME Warehouse inventories!

JP Morgan confirms its dominant position in Copper

The head "raw materials" of JP Morgan acknowledged that his bank has invested $ 1.1 billion on stocks of copper on the London Metal Exchange
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Ian Henderson, chairman of JP Morgan Global Resources, has strong convictions about the copper market. He confirmed on Tuesday morning in a meeting for investors in Paris that "JP Morgan had bought more than half of stocks of copper on the London Metal Exchange to $ 1.1 billion. A dominant position which has fueled speculation on the red metal, since it makes the physical metal CCAEC more difficult. In total, the bank now owns about 122,222 tonnes of copper.

For two weeks the market questioned the idendity the holder of these stocks. According to figures published by the London Metal Exchange, a player had between 50 and 79% of reserves in the marketplace, which has warehouses all over the world. Among the potential holders of the metal, the BlackRock fund and ETF Securities, working in prevalence of Exchange Traded Funds on copper, had been cited. The name of JP Morgan also circulated. This is the first time that the bank recognizes.

The manager explained this decision by solid fundamental reasons. "We met there is little the leaders of Codelco, the largest copper producer in the world with 12% market share. They explained that their production would have to be halved in five years," says the specialist, who has over thirty-five years of experience in commodities. With $ 70 billion of assets under management, JPMorgan Global Resources is the first strike force in the world for raw materials.