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Anglo American's mining portfolio spans many commodities and continents. Like other large diversified miners, Anglo has significant exposure to copper, iron ore and metallurgical coal, but it is unique among the global majors given its significant platinum group metals and diamonds output. The company accounts for about one third of the world’s platinum supply and around 30% of palladium supply. Anglo also owns 85% of De Beers, in most years the world's largest supplier and marketer of rough gem diamonds by value. Anglo also plans to move back into the crop nutrients business via its Woodsmith polyhalite project in the United Kingdom. In May 2024, Anglo announced that it will restructure to focus on copper, iron ore, and crop nutrients, while selling or spinning off its other businesses.

The year 2024 is shaping up to be another spectacular time for equity investors. As opposed to many years, it seems like all you had to do in 2024 was throw a dart at a major index board and you came out a winner. It sure is nice when good news is spread around and not concentrated in just one industry or sector. Once again, the mega-cap indices outperformed -- but smaller-cap stocks also did well. Some of the small-cap indices even broke out to all-time highs for the first time in three years. The Invesco S&P 500 Top 50 ETF (XLG) is leading, with a surge of 32%. Close behind is the S&P 100 (OEX +29%), the Nasdaq (+27%), and the S&P 500 (+26%). Next up are the Nasdaq 100 (QQQ +24%), S&P MidCap 400 (MDY +22%), Russell 200 (IWM +21%), NYSE (+20%), Dow Jones Industrials (+19%), and the S&P Small Cap 600 (SML +16%). Strength has also been broad, with all 11 sectors higher, led by Financial (XLF +38%), Communication Services (XLC +36%), Utilities (XLU +34%), Industrials (XLI +27%), Consumer Discretionary (XLY +24%), and Information Technology (XLK +21%). With a year like this, it's no surprise that sentiment is heavily tilted toward optimism. That can be the case for a surprisingly long time. Most investors are right during the main parts of bull and bear markets, but wrong at major turning points. One worrisome read is the major-index combined hedger (smart money) futures position. Hedgers have moved to an extremely bearish position. That tells is that the trend will be your friend in 2025, until it isn't. (Mark Arbeter, CMT)

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The Vickers Top Insider Picks is a daily report that utilizes a proprietary algorithm to identify 25 companies with compelling insider purchase histories based on transactions over the past three months.