JPMorgan raised the firm’s price target on Freeport-McMoRan to $52 from $43 and keeps a Neutral rating on the shares as part of a Q1 earnings preview for the North America copper group. Copper’s recent bullish shift has unfolded quicker than expected while coinciding with earlier than anticipated momentum building in global manufacturing PMIs, suggesting pricing may have outpaced fundamentals at this point, the analyst tells investors in a research note.
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