| From Investorschronicle.co.uk: Large cap mining kicked off 2009 in explosive fashion, with the main market-listed sector up almost 20 per cent since the new year. Underlying this is a strong rally in base metals through the same period, which has seen copper prices gain 15 per cent, zinc gain 13 per cent and nickel shoot up 23 per cent.
Analysts warn, however, that this current strength is a flash in the pan, attributing it to the annual re-weighting of the benchmark Dow Jones-AIG (DJ-AIG) commodity indices in the US..... Full Article: Source
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