Aluminum Prices
Alcoa’s sales benefited from aluminum prices that rose 18 percent in the quarter to $2,230 a ton on the London Metal Exchange. The price Alcoa charged customers for the metal increased 9.3 percent from the previous quarter, the company said. Revenue exceeded the average estimate of $4.84 billion in the Bloomberg survey.
“They are benefiting partially from higher aluminum prices, but the cost honeymoon the company has had for the past nine months is rapidly drawing to a close,” Beristain said in a Jan. 5 interview. “Some input variables are starting to move against them as foreign currencies strengthen against the dollar.”
Chief Executive Officer Klaus Kleinfeld cut about 21,500 jobs from June 2008 through December 2009 as the deteriorating global economy reduced demand for aluminum. In March, he pledged to eliminate $2.4 billion in annual costs for items from raw materials to transportation, and had completed 83 percent of that goal by the end of the third quarter.
Also from Bloomberg: Stocks, Copper Gain While Dollar Falls After China Reports Record Imports
Copper futures for March delivery climbed to $3.441 a pound in New York. Shipments of copper and copper products into China rose to about 369,400 metric tons in December, the Customs General Administration said yesterday in Beijing. That was up 27 percent from November and 29 percent from a year earlier, according to Bloomberg data. Record imports in last year’s first half helped copper prices more than double in 2009.
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