Freeport-McMoRan Inc

Vancouver — At a time when Afghanistan is being bombed and Muslim fundamentalists are calling for a “holy war” against the U.S., it must be a tad unsettling for an American-based mining company to ha…

Well, so much for the gold rally. Prices for the yellow metal began a downward trend during the Oct. 3-9 report period, falling out of a tight US$290-per-oz. trading range and quietly drifting down to…

Denver — The Dow Jones industrial average sank another 243.43 points, or 2.7%, to 8,659.64 during the report period ended Sept. 25 — its lowest level in four years. The Nasdaq settled at 1501.64.The…

Denver — Nearly a week after the terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington D.C., trading resumed in a strongly negative fashion. The Dow Jones industrial average plunged 702.11 points, or 7.3…

Denver — Bombing of the World Trade Center in New York on Sept. 11 halted trading among financial markets already battered by bad economic news. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 391.98 points (4…

Denver — Growing market pessimism pushed the Dow Jones industrial average below the 10,000 mark, down 224.54 points, or 2.2%, to 9997.49 points during the report period ended Sept. 4. The Nasdaq drop…

Denver — Financial markets sank in response to the U.S. Federal Reserve’s latest quarter-point interest rate cut, sending the Dow Jones industrial average down 238.03 points, or 2.3%, for the report …

Record gold sales and throughput in the second quarter have allowed Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold (FCX-N) to post zero-unit cash costs for each pound of copper produced at the vast Grasberg mine in I…

Denver — The Dow Jones industrial average climbed 281.69 points, or 2.8%, during the report period ended July 31 to close at 10,522.81, while spot gold on the Comex division of the New York Mercantil…

Rio Tinto continues to gain ground on Anglo American in its quest for first place among global mining companies, as ranked by the Raw Materials Group in Who Owns Who in Mining 2001.The U.K.-based tita…

Denver — Improved ore grades and record throughput at the Grasberg copper-gold operation in Irian Jaya, Indonesia, should propel Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold (FCX-N) to a profitable second quarter….

Denver — The Dow Jones industrial average fell 472.36 points, or 4.4%, to 10,175.64 in the U.S. holiday-shortened report period ended July 10, amid warnings of poor second-quarter earnings. The Nasda…