Tuesday, October 19, 2010

BHP (NYSE:BHP), Teck (NYSE:TCK), Freeport (NYSE:FCX) and Rio Tinto (NYSE:RIO) Will Soar on Quantitative Easing

With the Federal Reserve poised to inflate via quantitative easing, a number of commodities will surge in price, which will strongly benefit diversified miners like BHP Billiton (NYSE:BHP), Teck Resources (NYSE:TCK), Freeport McMoran (NYSE:FCX) and Rio Tinto (NYSE:RIO).

According to UBS (NYSE:UBS), some of their top commodity picks include gold, copper, palladium, iron ore, thermal coal and zinc. They added they believe it's a "game changer" for commodities.

Talking on global capital flows, UBS said that should strengthen "credit creation in emerging markets." The giant bank concluded, "We believe that QE2 will prolong the bull market in commodities."

UBS' top pick in the commodity sector is palladium, which they see making significant gains through 2015.

In what could be troubling news for aluminum producers like Alcoa (NYSE:AA), UBS sees aluminum and nickel, among other commodities whose supply has little constraint upon them as being less desirable and affected by quantitative easing.

Gold of course will continue to perform strongly for some time to come. In that space, besides companies mentioned above, they like gold mining giant Barrick Gold (NYSE:ABX).

UBS said they like gold mining stocks over ownership of physical gold.

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