Quantum made 577 million pounds in fiscal 1995, up almost five-fold since Hanson bought it for $ 3.2 billion at the trough of the chemicals price cycle three years ago.
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"People are getting more of a conviction that the pricing cycle is behind us and that HMO margins should continue to expand, " said Conning and Co . analyst Mark Jamilkowski.
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At US $ 500 a metric ton, newsprint prices are at what analysts see as near the bottom of the current price cycle at a time when there's too much capacity.
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It's a sign a bottom is approaching in a 10-year price cycle that has remained relatively stable in the cattle industry for the past century, many analysts and ranchers are saying.
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"Its a brave person who tries to predict the bottom of the metal price cycle at the moment, " said Steve Hiscock, head of Australian equities at National Australia Asset Management.
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Quantum made 577 million pounds in fiscal 1995, up almost five-fold since Hanson bought it for $ 3 . 2 billion at the trough of the chemicals price cycle three years ago.
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Ellis said, though, he's confident the copper business will improve, driven by " strong demand, lower costs and improved risk profile and a stronger resource position, of course influenced by the copper price cycle ."
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Euan Baird, chairman of Schlumberger, the most successful oil-services firm, insists that " there is no big structural change here _ this is just the typical oil-industry overreaction to the bottom of the price cycle ."
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However, the downside of this initially successful strategy was that it made the company dependent on a small number of markets whose fortunes were tied to the commodity price cycle, in often unstable parts of the world, for most of its profits.
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Just as a " mostly uninterrupted negative pricing cycle " _ widespread cuts in premiums _ seems to be ending among competing insurers, Stephens said, those executives have bought a number of operations, including the United States casualty business of the Cigna Corp.
