Freeport-McMoRan Inc

U.S. stock markets made a modest gain during the report period Aug. 12-24, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average rising 1.6% to 10,098.63 points and the S&P 500 index up 1.9% at 1,096.19.

Downbeat economic news, high crude oil prices, and the expectation that the U.S. Federal Reserve would increase interest rates brought U.S. stock markets lower in the reporting period Aug. 4-9. The S&P 500 Index fell 34.47 points, or 3.1%, to 1,06…

The period ended July 20 was punctuated by a hefty second-quarter loss by Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold, which stemmed primarily from a major rockslide last October at its giant Grasberg mine in Indonesia.

The period ended April 13 was punctuated by the mutually agreed-upon cancellation of a tentative deal that would have seen Royal Gold entirely finance the US$13.8-million cost of building Capital Gold‘s El Cha…

The biggest disappointment for mining investors over the holiday-shortened period that ended Jan. 20 was the evaporation of quarterly earnings in Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold’s latest report.A fourt…

Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold (FCX-N) has eliminated US$180 million in debt through the early conversion of senior notes.In mid-2001, the copper magnate issued US$603.75 million worth of senior conve…

With base metal prices rising across the board in response to a weakening U.S. dollar, U.S.-listed base metal majors basked in new multi-year highs during the 4-day period ended Dec. 22.Alcoa led the …

New Orleans-based Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold (FCX-N) has declared force majeure on deliveries of copper concentrate from the massive Grasberg copper-gold mine in Indonesia.The decision was made in…

This was a week of mainly sideways motion in the U.S. equity markets, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average rising 69.78 points to 9,923.42, as the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index fell 6.44 points to 1,06…