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What is the price of copper going for per pound? 

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An accurate copper price prediction may guide commodity trading and firm profits in the copper industry.
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Demand for copper is not driven by time, but rather by population and per capita income.
The results identify two cycles of copper prices and price forecasts in the short term.
The model results indicate that China's per-capita in-use copper stock has grown from about 7 kg in 1990 to close to 60 kg in 2015.
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Hesam Dehghani, Dejan Bogdanovic 
02 Nov 2017-Resources Policy
64 Citations
Finally, it is concluded that the determined equation with 0.132 of RMSE can predict the copper price better than the classic estimation methods.
This study, therefore, provides new insights into price determination on the LME copper market, and resolves the ambiguity of previous research regarding the efficiency of that market.
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Xinkai Fu, Stian M. Ueland, Elsa Olivetti 
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We find that both industrial activity and world GDP correlate with total scrap supply, with limited dependence on copper price.
Second, it is shown that a partially integrated copper producer may find rationing profitable as a means of partially achieving the effects of price discrimination given that price discrimination itself is infeasible.
The application to the U. S. refined copper market provides estimates of structural supply and demand, rational price forecasts, and the risk of copper storage that is consistent with modern portfolio theory.