Copper market’s biggest whale fuels speculation of a major shift
The world’s single biggest buyer of copper, State Grid Corp. of China, has slowed its purchases of copper wire this year.
Ivanhoe Australia Ltd (ASX & TSX: IVA), controlled by North American-based Ivanhoe Mines, today put out what it quaintly described as a clarification of its position on Exco Resources Ltd (ASX: EXS) selling the Cloncurry copper project to Xstrata Copper.
Ivanhoe, which is Exco’s major shareholder made it clear it was not supporting the sale, pointing out that the company’s chief executive Peter Reeve, as a director of Exco, excused himself from the deliberation of this transaction.
