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Thursday, 23 May 2013

McMoRan flop makes Freeport bid more like bailout

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The U.S. explorer is bleeding cash after plowing $1 bln into a failing deep gas well. That makes the 74 pct premium offered by miner Freeport, whose chairman also runs McMoRan, look even richer - especially with gas cheap and abundant. Freeport’s shareholders are the losers.

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