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...Fortescue Metals Group. And China Minmetals, another state-owned firm, offered to pay $1.2 billion in cash for Australia-based Oz Minerals, the world's second largest zinc miner. "These [Chinese] companies know this slump, while deep, will not last forever," says Xu Minle, a Shanghai-based analyst at BOC International. "China is now making strategic investments overseas at a comparatively lower cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Buying Binge | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

Considering how far mineral prices have fallen, some analysts believe Chinalco might actually be paying a premium for Rio Tinto assets. But BOC International's Xu says, "The price is much, much lower for the assets--particularly iron ore and copper--than it would have been just six months ago. This seems like a pretty good deal." And as long as commodity prices are depressed, Chinese companies will be Going Out, cash in hand, ready...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Buying Binge | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

...suppliers far into the future - and it has the money to pay for them. Half of the country's massive national savings of $2 trillion is in corporate coffers. "These [Chinese] companies know this slump, while deep, will not last forever," says Xu Minle, a Shanghai-based analyst at BOC International. "China is now making strategic investments overseas at a comparatively lower cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Buying Binge | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

...Considering how far mineral prices have fallen, some analysts believe Chinalco might actually be paying a premium for Rio Tinto assets. But BOC International's Xu says "the price is much, much lower for the assets - particularly iron ore and copper - than it would have been just six months ago. This seems like a pretty good deal." As long as commodity prices are depressed, Chinese companies - having learned the pitfalls of "Going Out" - are likely to be ravenous buyers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Buying Binge | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

...Some analysts believe Chinalco paid a premium for the Rio assets, given how much prices have slumped. But BOC International's Xu notes, "that the price is much, much lower for the assets - particularly iron ore and copper - than it would have been just six months ago. This seems like a pretty good deal for Chinalco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China Buys Australia On the Cheap | 2/17/2009 | See Source »

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