Hints and tips:
...The problem is that “Cornton Vale Women’s Prison, Stirling” doesn’t have the same ring to it as “Folsom”, and Glasgow isn’t quite Nashville....
...The shares of mining companies including Rio Tinto, Vale, Anglo American and Freeport McMoRan each fell by more than 3 per cent....
...Jake Greenberg, mining specialist at Jefferies, said that some investors were beginning to ask whether it might be a good time to buy mining shares....
...Anglo American shares are down 64 per cent from their 2011 peak; Vale is 45 per cent lower; and Kazakhmys has lost 85 per cent....
...Jake Greenberg, a mining specialist at Jefferies, says that Glencore-Xstrata could take the opposite direction and embark into mega-deals....
...The merger will profoundly alter the mining industry by creating a company able to compete with BHP Billiton, Vale of Brazil and Rio Tinto....
...Leading mining groups including BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto and Vale are large producers of the commodity, and the fall in iron-ore prices has raised concerns about miners’ profits....
...Mr Glasenberg walked away from a deal to sell Glencore’s 34 per cent Xstrata stake to miner Vale of Brazil in early 2008 after it disagreed with the terms of that merger....
...Jake, apparently the only survivor of the attack, joins a Native American tribe who tame and ride dragons. Hot stuff....
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