This Massively Failed Mining Deal Shows How Success Can Kill Strategy Alerts...
Rio Tinto was flush with cash after a decades-long commodity boom, which ended up leading it to an incredibly poor strategic decision. Success made it feel stronger than it was, leading it to pay far,...
View ArticleRio Tinto CEO promises change after miner's first yearly loss ......
Rio Tinto's new chief executive, Sam Walsh, promised investors âno growth for growth's sakeâ, as the mining giant posted a $2.6bn (£1.7bn) annual loss, its first...
View ArticleRio Tinto posts $3-billion loss, new CEO vows cost cuts - The Globe ......
Rio Tinto Group's new chief flagged he would slash costs, focus on selling weak assets, and spend capital more carefully after the world's no.3 miner reported a...
View ArticleRio Tinto drops $2.99bn into red - first loss since 1995 - Telegraph Alerts -...
Rio Tinto, the Anglo-Australian mining giant, has reported its first annual loss in 18 years, plunging $2.99bn (£1.92bn) into the red on $14.4bn of writedowns and...
View ArticleRio Tinto H2 underlying profit slumps 47 pct | Reuters Alerts - "Rio...
MELBOURNE, Feb 14 (Reuters) - World no.3 miner Rio Tinto reported a 47 percent plunge in half-year underlyingprofit on Thursday, its worst since 2009 due to...
View ArticleRio Tinto shares down after $US3bn loss Alerts - "Rio Tinto"
Rio Tinto's announced a full year net loss for 2012 of almost $US3 billion ($2.91 billion) after the Australian share market closed yesterday. The mining giant was dragged into the red after making...
View ArticleFree Research Report on Elan Corp. Plc, Rio Tinto plc, Dupont Fabros ......
In September 2011, Iron Ore Holdings Ltd. The Full Research Report on Rio Tinto plc - including full detailed breakdown, analyst ratings and price targets - is available to download free of charge at:...
View ArticleNew Rio Tinto boss pledges overhaul after miner sinks to £1.7bn...
Rio Tinto's new boss pledged to overhaul the miner after it sank to a £1.7billion loss due to £9.3billion in writedowns that forced the resignation of his predecessor. Sam Walsh promised to 'improve...
View ArticleRio Tinto results: loss on iron ore mirrors Australian economy | Crikey...
Rio Tinto is over-exposed to iron ore prices that have collapsed over the last 12 months -- just like the Australian economy. David Llewellyn-Smith of MacroBusiness wonders if there's any way...
View ArticleRio Tinto's 2012 Loss Upstages Cliffs Natural Resources Alerts -...
Global mining giant Rio Tinto (NYSE: RIO ) is promising big changes after unleashing a $3 billion loss for 2012 on its investors. The loss, which is the biggest in company history, has new CEO Sam...
View ArticleGoldman Sachs Picks Raanan Agus to Head Liberty Harbor Alerts - "Goldman...
Goldman Sachs Group (GS) Inc. picked Raanan Agus to manage Liberty Harbor ... Goldman Sachs's asset management group, is a global multi-strategy fund that ...
View ArticleGoldman Sachs Picks Raanan Agus to Manage Liberty Harbor Alerts -...
Agus will continue to run GSIP, a hedge fund that handles client money, ... Liberty Harbor, which is part of Goldman Sachs's asset management group, ...
View ArticleGoldman Sachs Asset Management Chairman O'Neil to Retire ... Alerts -...
Jim O'Neil, chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, will retire later this ... Unlimited Access to our Hedge Fund Directory, Industry Moves Database and...
View ArticleWhy Leon Cooperman is Spending Billions on These 3 Small-Cap Stocks Alerts -...
... decided to retire as head of Goldman Sachs Asset Management in 1991. ... Cooperman is outgunning his hedge fund peers, many of whom are several decades ...
View ArticleLeon Cooperman's latest stock picks Alerts - "Goldman Sachs...
By Meena Krishnamsetty and Matt Doiron Billionaire Leon Cooperman headed Goldman Sachs Asset Management before founding hedge fund Omega Advisors in 1991.
View ArticleReveal Your Preferences! Show Your Support for Accounting-Based Economic...
If there’s one thing that distinguishes modeling by mainstream and neoclassical economists — and that is arguably their Achilles Heel — it’s their failure to come at the problem from a fundamental...
View ArticleNW Plan for Social Security: Abridged Spreadsheet
First attempt at putting the NW Plan 2012 into viewable form. This graphic compresses the original spreadsheet in both axes. I will be putting links to the full spreadsheet in comments because I am...
View ArticleIâm sooooo not happy that my main email account was hacked today...
⦠but Iâm really grateful that so many friends and acquaintances, including Dan C., have let me know. (My favorite, from my friend âAâ: âBeverly, someone is sending spam around in your...
View ArticleRisk = Freedom?
Peter Dorman at Econospeak speaks to the current selling of big idea models of the world (re-posted with permission from the author): Thereâs a review on the Dissent website by Steve Randy Waldman of...
View ArticleAquifers too deep to be tapped
David Zetland at Aguanomics points us to the way the US 'too deep to use' water aquifers for waste water from fracking, and the example of Mexico City drilling deep as a way to handle water shortages:...
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