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Freeport-McMoRan (FCX) stock fell 6.6% on Thursday to close at $71.21, while the S&P 500 slipped 0.6%. Copper sold off on surging yields and on reports that the White House has yet to decide on copper tariffs, raising concern the plan could be dropped over worries about higher manufacturing costs. That doubt lands on the part of Freeport that management says a tariff would help: its US business.
A single policy update with no operational content just sent the entire copper mining sector into freefall, erasing billions in gains that took months to build. Here is why tariff uncertainty can reprice a whole industry inside minutes.
The agreement also includes a provision for the government to establish offtake rights to a portion of the future germanium, antimony and gallium
The copper price rally continued early Tuesday morning, then lost momentum, amid hopes for a U.S.-Iran peace deal, easing dollar and market positioning for a near-term decision on expanding Trump tariffs on the red metal. Mining stocks including BHP Group, Rio Tinto, Anglo American and Teck Resources trade near buy points, as does the United States Copper Index Fund, a copper stock ETF. The price of copper briefly rallied within 4% of an all-time high as markets brace for potential Trump tariffs news later this month, with demand already outpacing supply.
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