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Wallets fat, Japanese trading companies ready to splurge on copper assets

Andrew Topf | November 17, 2011 | 7:09 am Base Metals Asia Europe Copper 

Anglo American's $5.4 billion sale of its 24% stake in Codelco to Mitsubishi — Japan's largest trading house — is just the beginning of further rounds of competition between Japanese trading houses for the red metal. According to Reuters, Japan's...

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