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...We are listening to what people are telling us,” says María Díaz del Río, chief of staff for the Citi unit that is running the programme....
...“In other crises the industry made the mistake of reducing graduate intake dramatically, so when markets rebounded we didn’t have enough people and were missing entire generations,” said María Díaz del Río...
...It’s one of the basic tenets of our business model,” Frank Del Rio, chief executive of Norwegian Cruise Line, the third-largest cruise operator, told the Financial Times....
...And later we’d stopped to admire it from the mirador that stands at the top of a series of six spectacular hairpin bends, one of the defining images of the Carretera Austral, the supremely scenic road we...
...At the Mirador del Río, a lookout point wedged into the cliff face of the mighty Risco de Famara, the huge views of neighbouring island La Graciosa and the Atlantic Ocean 475m below were framed by a round-edged...
...Rio, chief executive....
...The largest event the company has facilitated was a Salsa Congress in Mexico in 2011 (Festival Internacional de Salsa Boca del Río) that sold almost 100,000 tickets....
...Last year the government approved the country’s first large-scale mining project in the Mirador copper deposit through a $1.4bn deal with China-backed Ecuacorriente....
...“We have seen contractor rates in particular starting to go down, rolling back some of the unsustainable cost increases of recent years,” said Tom Albanese, chief executive of Rio Tinto....
...But while her drive to lift earnings outside South Africa (still accounting for a third of net assets and just under half of operating profit) should pay off in copper and nickel, the Minas-Rio iron ore...
...The world’s top 10 mines produced 600,000t fewer of copper last year than in 2010, Rio Tinto notes....
...Ricardo Pires de Souza, a tattooed boxer-turned-insurance salesman, says the first trick to selling life insurance in Santa Marta, a Rio de Janeiro slum reclaimed from drug gangs by military police, is not...
...Kinross Gold Corp of Canada is in protracted negotiations with Ecuador over a $1.1bn investment in the Fruta del Norte gold project....
...Copper is also critical for the profitability of blue-chip miners such as BHP Billiton, Freeport-McMoRan, Rio Tinto, Anglo American and Xstrata and traders including Glencore and Trafigura....
...The company would also sell an 8.43 per cent equity stake in the Ferrocarriles del Norte de Colombia (Fenoco) railway that connects the coal mines to the port....
...The combined company would rank as the world’s fourth largest mining group by market capitalisation, behind BHP Billiton, Vale of Brazil and Rio Tinto....
...Its 2011 profits would amount to $7.5bn according to Credit Suisse estimates, compared to consensus estimates of $20bn for BHP Billiton, $15.5bn for Rio Tinto and $6bn for Anglo American....
...And Anglo’s biggest bet, its $6bn Minas-Rio iron ore project in Brazil, should ship its first ore next year....
...“It is noticeable that markets are somewhat weaker,” said Rio Tinto chief executive Tom Albanese in an interview. “In a few cases, customers are asking to reschedule deliveries....
...The rest of the miners tracked metals prices lower with Kazakhmys losing 5 per cent to 830½p and Rio Tinto 3.9 per cent to £30.15....
...BHP Billiton is the largest owner of Escondida, controlling a 57.5 per cent stake, followed by Rio Tinto, with a 30 per cent stake....
...The top equities fund was BCP Acciones, run by the Peruvian bank, Banco de Credito del Peru, with a 63 per cent gain, driven by a 64.5 per cent jump in dollar terms in the Lima bourse....
...the metal’s price is up almost 50 per cent since June – will deliver barnstorming profits to some of the world’s largest mining companies, including Freeport McMoran of the US, BHP Billiton, Xstrata and Rio...
...Declining inventories are one factor; disappointing first-half production figures from miners such as Freeport-McMoRan, BHP Billiton, Xstrata and Rio Tinto another....
...Tom Albanese, chief executive of Rio Tinto, tells the Financial Times: “We could have sold more copper [in the first half of 2010] if we’d had it.”...
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