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...Ayres writes, "does anyone my age have any money? Or are my financial issues generational in nature?" A hundred pages later, he will move in with a woman and score a mortgage from a little bank called IndyMac, which would eventually go on to become the second-largest bank failure in history. Somehow, Ayres knew the fall was coming and kept going anyway...
...share of some of the mining firm's most valuable mines. The remainder of the cash injection will go into bonds that can eventually be converted into an equity stake, which would double Chinalco's overall ownership position in Rio. The $19.5 billion deal amounts to the largest foreign investment any company in China has ever made. Two days ago, another state-owned firm, China Minmetals, said it would pay $1.7 billion in cash for Oz Minerals ltd., the world's second largest zinc miner...
...Chinalco, a huge consumer of iron ore, the deal provides potential pricing power over Rio, one of the world's three largest ore producers. Every year, steel and aluminum producers worldwide negotiate with miners over new contracts. For the past few years the mining companies have driven up prices relentlessly. Shan Shanghua, executive secretary of China's Iron and Steel Association, recently hinted that Chinese buyers will have some additional clout at the bargaining table...
...recent years, more attention has been drawn to incidents of ambulance patients dying after being turned away by multiple facilities - in one extreme case, 50 - causing an outcry from the public and politicians and underscoring the fact that medical care in world's second largest economy is severely handicapped by lack of capacity, equipment and expertise...
...last year that he'd be willing to meet with Chávez, U.S. President Barack Obama in a recent interview was critical of the Venezuelan and his stridently anti-U.S. stance. Washington will now watch to see if Chávez, who controls the western hemisphere's largest oil reserves, can retain his boisterous influence in the Americas - and survive politically at home - if oil prices don't rebound and the economy continues to slide. "The futures markets seem to think oil prices will rise soon enough that Chávez won't have to dip into...