Insight - Some commodity producers lagging the rallies in red-hot metals

High demand: An employee works at a copper smelter in Ventanas, Chile. Much of the rally in commodities has been built on China’s seemingly insatiable demand, with the world’s second-largest economy having boosted stimulus spending on commodity-intensive infrastructure and construction projects. — Reuters

THE global rally in commodities has seen some like copper and iron ore probe record highs, but when it comes to the companies producing natural resources the gains in their share prices have been largely lagging and uneven.

Benchmark London copper futures came within a whisker of their all-time high on Wednesday, reaching US$10,040 (RM41,389.90) a tonne, just shy of the record US$10,190 hit in February 2011.