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...weeks in which investors and analysts felt a little better about the prospects of the economy at the end of the year, the pallbearers have returned. The enthusiasm about a recovery in the banking system was sandwiched by bad news from bank analysts who think the largest financial firms will have to raise tens of billions of extra dollars on the one side and Congressmen who say that they will not provide more TARP money on the other. With insurance companies now begging for dollars as well, there is not going to be enough bailout money to go around. Bank...
...commodities China will need in vast quantities in the long run. In the past two months, Chinese companies have sought to buy assets abroad at an unprecedented pace. Aluminum Corp. of China (Chinalco) has announced plans to invest $19.5 billion in Rio Tinto, one of the world's largest mining companies. If completed, the deal would be the biggest foreign purchase any Chinese company has ever made. In late February, Hunan Valin Iron & Steel Group of China purchased a $771 million stake in the Australian iron-ore exporter Fortescue Metals Group. And China Minmetals, another state-owned firm, offered...
...world. The deal gives Petrobras capital to further develop the field. In return, China will get 100,000 bbl. to 160,000 bbl. a day for more than 20 years. And just before the Brazilian deal, Beijing agreed to lend $15 billion to cash-strapped Rosneft, Russia's largest oil company, and an additional $10 billion to Transneft, Russia's biggest pipeline company. The loans will be paid off not in cash but in crude--300,000 bbl. a day from the huge east Siberian oil fields. That's about 4% of China's current demand for crude oil. Over...
...toward a huge, silent box of a building. "That's where I worked," he said, "the plant with no smoke coming out of it." Even without a college degree, he had been making $24 an hour there, at the Boise Cascade paper mill, which was the town's largest employer. And then he was fired, along with most of the other employees, in January. Kristy had been running a home day-care center, but that income vanished when laid-off millworkers started taking care of their kids themselves. Douglas had her own sorry landmark, the ranch house across the street...
...every ability you have, from the smallest to the largest, to do what you can,” Haven said, rousing the roughly 80 persons in attendance to a prolonged bout of applause...