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...Australia generates almost 90 per cent of Rio’s profits, mainly due to its large iron ore business in the Pilbara....
...“I remember him knee-deep in drawings in his room while he worked on the illustrations for Hunter S Thompson’s novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.” Hers was a unique kind of literary bohemia....
...Shares in Vale, which is the world’s largest iron ore producer, dropped 25 per cent on the first day after the catastrophe and chief executive Fabio Schvartsman temporarily resigned....
...(Daley Thompson and Jessica Ennis-Hill might be said to be the exceptions that prove the rule, but only if you do your all clothes shopping at Sports Direct.)...
...Last year, hedge funds shorted iron ore producers as a way of betting on lower demand in China. The investment managers appear to be the latest target....
...Thompson is in awe of those Georgian originals, but wonders how much was spoiled in the process....
...Number 11, by Jonathan Coe, Penguin Viking, RRP£16.99 Like his acclaimed What a Carve Up!...
...part of a big turnover of the company’s advisers and many of its board members and senior employees, including Alex Gaft, a senior corporate investigator who was examining conduct at the group’s large iron...
...This comes as the price of metals such as copper, iron ore and zinc slumped last year while costs such as labour and energy inputs continued to rise, leaving many of the world’s mining companies cash poor...
...LJ Group – co-founded by Harry and Edward Lawson Johnston, who are cousins of Peter Lawson Johnston II, of the Guggenheim family – are backing the buy-out from Deloitte Private Client Services....
...China’s Shandong Iron and Steel agreed in July to invest $1.5bn (£970m) in the Tonkolili project but due diligence was taking longer than expected....
...Christopher Thompson is an FT UK companies reporter and Anthony Deutsch is Jakarta correspondent ………………………………………….....
...The British artist Cathy Azria’s outdoor fireplaces are tangles of iron above a gas flame that provide warmth while becoming evocative, glowing sculptures as they heat up....
...Results today from CRH, Aegis, International Power, Admiral Group, Jardine Lloyd Thompson, Ashtead, Redrow and a bunch of others....
...Day Haight, ‘Burnout, chronic fatigue, and Prozac in the professions: the iron law of salaries’, Review of Radical Political Economics, 33 (2), Spring 2001 ■M. Thompson and P....
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