Tap the top copper shares

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GLOBAL X COPPER MINERS ETF, $42.59, is a buy. The ETF (New York symbol COPX; buy or sell through brokers; www.globalxfunds.com) lets you track the Solactive Global Copper Miners Index, with 40 global mining and exploration firms. The fund launched in April 2010. Canadian firms make up 36.2% of the ETF’s holdings. They also include companies based in Australia (9.9%), the U.S. (9.5%), China (9.1%), Japan (7.6%), the U.K. (5.8%), Sweden (5.5%) and Switzerland (4.7%). The fund charges an acceptable 0.65% MER. The ETF’s top holdings include Lundin Mining, 5.2%; First Quantum, 5.2%; Freeport-McMoRan, 5.0%; Antofagasta, 4.8%; Sumitomo Metal, 4.8%; Glencore plc, 4.6%; Teck Resources, 4.6%; and Hudbay Minerals, 4.5%. Copper offers strong long-term prospects for investors given the increasingly tight supply as producers use up the world’s easy-to-mine copper deposits. That outlook also reflects optimism about global economic growth. Note— copper is essential in the construction and operation of datacentres needed to power artifical intelligence applications. This fund is a buy. buy. …