Materials stocks will be doing it tough. More bad news from offshore…
At its Annual General Meeting held in Mumbai yesterday, the Chairman of Tata Steel, Ratan Tata, reported an 89% plunge in its June Quarter 2012 net profit. <http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tata-steel-ltd/stocks/companyid-12902.cms>
Mr Tata said the Company will need to restructure its operations due to a slackening of global steel demand. From their 2006 acquisition of Corus, around half of Tata Steel’s 24 million tonnes per annum capacity is European based.
Meanwhile, Hong Kong listed China Resource Cement has released a disappointing interim report to June 2012. Accordingly, their net profit forecast for each of 2012, 2013 and 2014 has been cut aggressively. Despite building capacity by 25% to 64 million tonnes of cement per annum, the gross profit margin per tonne for 2012 is expected to be less than half that recorded in 2011. China Resource Cement’s net profit should be around HK$1.4 billion in 2012, down 67% from HK$4.2 billion in 2011.
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zoran arnautovic
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Roger
All this “doom and gloom”.All you need is german accent and Faber will be in our living rooms.
I hope you are wrong and next year you dont say: “I told you so”.
Thanks for timely warning anyway.